Buchberger

Happy 31st Birthday!!!

2011-09-16T16:19:00.000-07:00

We had a birthday at our house. :) Justin turned 31 on the 10th. We got to celebrate together as our little family of 4 at home that morning.

Got a new COOL shirt. :)

His loving wife made him an apple pie (he isn't much of a cake person) :) Who knows if it was any good, he is the only one at our house that likes pie. :)

Then later that night we all went to the Diamondbacks game with his family. And a few of my brothers were able to go with their kids too. :)

Hopefully it was an all around good day for him...he deserves it! We all LOVE him SO much!!

Preschool!

2011-08-31T15:05:00.000-07:00

Man I am feeling old...my first born is now in Preschool! (this is a little late, he started like 3 weeks ago. oops!) He LOVES it! That is probably an understatement. He goes 3 days a week and on the last day of the week he is already counting down till the first day of the school week for the next week. :) He has so much fun with his teacher and the other boys in the class. ( all 7 other boys! NO girls)

I am so glad he enjoys school so much, I wonder how long that will last. :) I am just going to enjoy this right now as much as he does. :)

4 fun days...

2011-08-24T16:25:00.000-07:00

We had 4 fun filled days a few weeks ago. We were lucky enough to have our friends the Lee's come and stay with us. We all miss getting to see them more, so when they come to town and want to stay with us we are all up for it. They daddies didn't have as much fun as the mommies or the kiddos but that's ok...right? :)

We had a few free tickets for the kids to go and play at pump it up! And since Porter and Anastyn weren't able to make it for the boys birthday party we decided to make the trip over there. They all had a pretty good time.

Cy found this big basketball to play with and of course kept going back for more. :)

The big boys LOVED the big slides of course, not sure the little ones even ever went down the slides.

Porter was like a monkey in this thing! He LOVED climbing up it to go down the huge slide at the top.

From this picture it makes it look like Ryken liked it too... not so much, he isn't as brave as Porter so he didn't make it all the way up.

This floor thing was a HUGE hit for all the kids. Even the moms that were there liked it. I think Gina and I both wished we had one of our own at our houses. :)

When we switched rooms there was an even BIGGER basketball in that room...to big for Cy to even pick up, so he settled for rolling it around. :)

Anastyn taking her turn at the air tee ball.

These two really are TOO cute! :)

Had some fun outside playing in the water.

Ryken had SO much fun when Porter was here.

The younger ones wanted to go out to play...I told Cy do not get in the water because you don't have you swimsuit on...next thing you know I look out and he is in the pool fully clothed. :)

So we just went with it and let him play anyways. :)

This kids had tons of fun during those 4 days, we were sad when it was all over.

The mommies had some fun too of course. One night we got out and went to dinner with alot of girlfriends of Gina's that met up with us, Gina being the awesome person she is painted my toenails and of course they turned out gorgeous! WE had a late night QT run on the way home from our girls night, and also had a Yogurt land run as well as a DQ run! Thanks again Lee's for coming and staying those 4 days with us! We LOVED it and hope you guys had some fun too. :)

Swimming lessons take two...

2011-08-12T15:40:00.000-07:00

Well the second session of swimming lessons is over this summer for Ryken. He had tons of fun this time around too! Makes me wish there was another session for him to do. :) But that will have to wait for next summer. (then we can see how Cy does, I am sure that will be another challenge, good thing we have awhile till it happens. ) :) This time around it was Beginner level 2 and he learned a few new things but mostly just tried to get better at the things he learned in the beginner level 1. He isn't going pro anytime soon but he sure made his mommy and daddy happy with the things that he did learn and the things he tried his best at.

Goofy goggle wearing goober before his lesson. :)

Miss Erin, Ryken and Mr. Marshmellow!!

Jumping in ready to try his best at swimming across the pool, he wasn't the best at going straight on this, but he did make it there eventually. :)

YAY! Passed Level 2 now next year he can go to Intermediate! We may have to take another refresher class of level 2 just to make sure. :)

Can you do a handstand?

2011-07-31T16:21:00.000-07:00

I can not do any cool tricks. I can't say the same for Justin. He is good at flips,headstands, handstands and he is probably even good at cartwheels. (I haven't asked him to do one of those) :) So he was showing off the other night and the boys wanted to copy him. So I of course had to get some pics.

Daddy showing off his skills. :)

Ryken ready to try...

Mid way action...

and his final attempt. :) Pretty good for a 4 year old if you ask me.

Of course Cy had to try it too. So here he is starting...

And here he is finished. :) That is about how good I could do it too. I didn't bother trying.

We got a good laugh out of it and the boys had fun, I even tried to get a little video action too. :)

Outside fun!

2011-07-28T21:17:00.001-07:00

Thank goodness we got the "grass" in our back yard done before this summer started. Cause I think that the boys are out there everyday playing. And lately since it is so darn hot out we have been playing in the water outside. The boys have loved every minute of it, and it makes me just as happy to see they having fun playing.

We had friends over to play in the water one day and it was a hit with all of them, I am pretty sure the mommies enjoyed relaxing outside watching the kiddos play just as much. :)

We have also just had a little family time outside in our little "frosted family pool" as Ryken likes to call it. (that is what it says on the box, so he has to refer to it as that) :) It was nice to get one small enough to not take forever to put up but also big enough for me and Justin to hangout in it too.

The boys are outside at least once a day eating a Popsicle. They are both obsessed with them right now. So they are the perfect little treat for outside. :)

They boys don't have fun outside just playing in the water, well at least not when dad is around. They love to get pushed around in Cy's new Coupe car he got for his birthday.

Cy even pushes Ryken around too. :)

Thank goodness there are ways of cooling down a little in this summer heat. It seems to be a lot of stuff involving water, and I am sure it won't be the last post about some kinda of water activity. :) We sure have enjoyed our outside fun!

Splash park fun!!

2011-07-13T15:55:00.000-07:00

Last summer neither of my boys were fans of the splash park/pads that we had been too. Actually neither of them have ever been a fan. So when we have gone to parks that had them before the boys would just sit and watch everyone else play and they never wanted too. It drove me nuts! Well I decided to meet up with one of my B's, Michelle and her son Nash at the Tempe Beach splash park last week. I wasn't really sure it was going to be much fun for the boys cause I didn't think they would want to even get wet...boy was I wrong. :) They both loved it! It took Cy a little while to warm up to it but he loved it by the end. It was a great little outing for ALL of us!

Ryken standing there waiting for the bucket of water to come down on him. :)

Cy in the back while Nash and Ryken just made their selves comfy in the middle of the frog head. :)

The slide was a huge hit for Ryken. He went down it more times then I could count. It was a crazy one too! It must have been so slippery. Cause every kid that came down it seem to shoot right off. Nash had just gone down and was laying there waiting to get up and down comes Ryken. Thank goodness no one got hurt. They just had fun!

Love how much Cy loved the water this day! It made me so happy. :)

Cy getting a little bum washing. :)

Cy wanted to get soaked by the pelican. :) He hated this at first but by the end he had been under it a few times.

Thanks for the fun time Michelle and Nash. WE missed the other B's too! Before the summer is over we will have to make another trip back over to have some more fun!

Swimming lessons take one...

2011-06-30T17:24:00.001-07:00

We put Ryken in swim lessons again this year...last year wasn't the best time, but this year he did WAY better. Well that is after he got over his fear of jumping in by himself. Once that happened he did great! This year during this first session he was able to be in the class with 2 of his best buddies, Aeryn and Mia. Us mommies planned it that way. :) And then he made friends with Ellie, the other little girl in the class. They were all great by the end of the session. Lets hope that the next session he is signed up for goes just as good. Fingers crossed. :)

Miss Erin is one awesome teacher!

He had troubles with the backfloat last year...this year he was great!

All of the kiddos loved the Mr. Marshmellow. :)

Miss Erin sings a cute little pancake song when they do their back floats.

He always said that one of his favorite parts of lessons was when he was able to get the ring. Then he had to take a silly picture with the ring on his face. :) Cracks me up!

Ryken is 4!!

2011-06-26T14:13:00.000-07:00

Where has the time gone? Do we really have a 4 year old?! It really is kinda hard to say in a way. I am sad that both him and his brother are both growing up so much. I LOVE looking back on old pictures to see how much they have grown. And what better time to do that then around their birthdays. :)

6 month old chunky monkey

1 year old, with his first piece of birthday cake. (wasn't a fan and it was hard to get him to make a mess with it. ) : )

2 years old (his brother was born 2 weeks before he turned 2)

3 years old

The BIG 4 year old!!

Daddy brought home some balloons and jamba juice for him just like last year. And of course it was a big hit...with everyone.:)

He wanted an ice cream cake for his birthday...this was the best I got. And he wasn't to happy about the fact that it had pink on it. :) And he even said that the pink didn't taste good like the other colors. lol Such a boy!

He got more presents to open from us and Cy. And all of them were big hits! I think he has enjoyed the marble maze the most so far...but maybe thats cause he hasn't gotten a few of the other ones out of the packages yet. :)

Got a picture of me and him together on his birthday! He said he had a great birthday when the day was all over with. He was so lucky cause Cars 2 came out on his birthday so him and daddy went and watched it! They both said it was good, and they both had a great time together. Ryken really is one smart cookie! I love all the funny things he has to say lately. He still LOVES letters and numbers. And has now started reading...alot more! It really is pretty weird to hear a kid his age read. And don't ask me how he does it cause I really have no idea. :) He is a great big brother, but he has his moments too. He is such a people person, he loves to talk to the cashier at every store we go to. It makes me smile every time. I can't wait to see how much more he learns and grows this next year. And I know that for the next year and years to come I will look at him and he will melt my heart just like the day he was born! LOVE YOU RYKEN ROO!!

Boys Birthday Bash!!

2011-06-23T14:26:00.000-07:00

One nice thing about having 2 boys that have birthdays only 2 weeks apart in the same month means we get to have ONE BIG BIRTHDAY BASH!! This year we went with the same idea as last years. It was such a hit last year why not try it again....we may have the same party next year too. :) So we invited lots of family and friends and we took over Pump it up for a few hours. The boys had tons of fun! It took Cy a little while to warm up to it, but he did eventually get in some of the things and actually play. Ryken on the other hand had been so excited for the party days before it was even happening. :)

Super cute sign they had up for the boys.

The fun begins...Ryken and his buddy Hayden going thru the obstacle course.

Of course Cy found one of the balls and was throwing it around for some fun. I Love his stance. :)

Playing a little air t-ball. And SO serious. :)

Even the adults get to have fun too! Justin enjoying one of the slides. :)

Cy...he didn't enjoy it as much.

Ryken getting a boost from daddy to hang his tag on the wall.

Ryken had just as much fun on the slide as Justin.

The boys each got these fun blowup staff things and birthday crowns. Cy loved the staff but not the crown so much.

Ryken LOVED it all. :)

Singing and candle blowing out time. :)

The boys were both spoiled by all of the family and friends that came. We all had tons of fun and we hope that all the guests did too. We missed the family and friends that couldn't be there with us...but hey there is always next year too. :)

Trying to have some fun...

2011-06-16T21:13:00.000-07:00

It hasn't even gotten as hot as its going to get this summer and I am already looking for fun stuff to do with the boys that doesn't involve being outside in the HEAT. SO since I have always wanted to take the boys to the Phoenix Children's Museum, and Justin was off, and they were having a little deal for their 3rd birthday we went there to get out of the heat and do something fun. :) I was so excited to see if the boys would like it there. We didn't get off on the best foot when we first started to try and get them to do some stuff. But once they got to do one fun thing it was on to ALL the other fun things.

Cy driving a tube of toothpaste. :) He loves anything that he can pretend drive. :)

An awesome golfball maze track thing...I want to make one of these, anyone know how? :)

The look on their faces are great! They were watching a ball go down a bunch of tubes, it doesn't sound like fun but believe me it was for them. :)

Grocery shopping! This was a huge hit for both of them!

Going to "pay" for the groceries. :)

Ryken and Justin in the Noodle Forest!

Cy and I. :)

Serving up his mommy some yummy ice-cream. :)

Taking the tricycles thru the trike wash.

They made their way up this huge climbing thing...Cy didn't want to go all the way, this was as far as he got. Not bad for the little guy. :)

Ryken and Justin made their way ALL the way up to the top, looking down on all the people.

:) Cheese!

Of course we can't always try to beat the heat by going places and actually being inside. So instead we invested in a few dollar store water blasters and used the new water-table for a fill up station. :)

These things were and still are a pretty big hit with Ryken, which surprises me cause he hates playing in the splash pads. Silly kid!

Also got around to playing with Cy's new water-table. It is also a huge hit! With both boys! I love seeing them play nice together...it doesn't happen often enough.

Cy is 2!!

2011-06-10T21:39:00.000-07:00

Wow, my baby is 2! I still am finding that very hard to believe. He truly is a joy in our lives. There are the days when I really do want to pull out my hair though. :) He has for sure been a difficult little guy from about a week old. But he makes up for it by being so darn cute! :) I love his hugs and kisses and his bright blue eyes. Well I just really LOVE everything about him. I am so lucky to call him my son, and my Cy guy! :)

1 day old

Chubby, little 6 month old. :)

Such a momma's boy. :)

Has the best little smiles.

Cy really can be an handful....but it only seems to be when I am around. :) Everyone else seems to think he is great when I am not around...wish I knew how that was. He is for sure all about his mommy! Which I love....and get frustrated about all at the same time. He LOVES balls! Any kind of ball, if you are ever at our house you will see that by how many different types of sport balls we have around. He LOVES animals...as long as they don't come close to him. lol He can tell you what ALOT of the animals say...but when it comes to him saying alot of other words, well don't count on it. He has a very limited vocabulary. So we look forward to the day that he can say a whole lot more them MOMMY! all the time. :) He is a pretty good eater when it comes to certain things. Fruit is not one of them. He is pretty much only a grape lover, and fresh pineapple if it is available. He LOVES his brother Ryken! And I love that he loves him so much. He is always looking for Ryken when he wakes up. Cy is a loving little guy, once the shyness wears off. :) And you can say that he pretty much has his mommy's heart now and forever!!

28!

2011-06-01T21:45:00.000-07:00

So yesterday we celebrated...my 28th birthday! For some reason I was thinking I was turning 27...boy was I wrong. :) Thank goodness I have Justin there to remind me. Oh and everyone else too. :) It was a great day all around. I got to spend the whole day with my boys and Justin and then the whole rest of the night with Justin too! It was FANTASTIC! The boys were even pretty well behaved too! Maybe they knew how happy that would make me. :)

These boys made my day, them and their daddy too. :)

Can't seem to celebrate my birthday without some yummy ice cream cake! Justin knows just what I LOVE!

Justin planned something different this year for us. I wasn't so sure I was going to enjoy it but it was a GREAT time. Of course it was cause I got to spend it with him but what we did was fun too! We went to Farrelli's Supper Cinema Club! We had our own little table, where we ordered our dinner and then ate it while watching a movie on the big screen. It was different but fun! I am glad we did something different this year. :)

Then afterwards we went out to the Scottsdale civic center (i think that is where it was, lol) and had fun taking some fun pictures. :)

It was some great planning on Justin's part. :) LOVE HIM!

Then we topped the night off sharing a yummy milkshake at the Sugar Bowl!

WoW, I find it hard to believe that another year has gone by and I had another birthday. Before you know it I will be 29...thinking I am really turning 28. :) So glad I have such a great hubby to spend my birthday with! He really knows how to make my day! Thanks HUN!! XOXO!

Out of Africa trip...

2011-05-13T13:12:00.000-07:00

We decided to make a last minute trip up to Camp Verde and go to Out of Africa. I have been wanting to go for awhile and it just seemed like a good time to go. Justin was off, Ryken and Cy both love the zoo, so I figured they would love this place too. I wanted to go and the weather that day was great. We had a GREAT time there. SO glad we decided to go. It was a great little staycation type of thing too. :)

We got to...

Pet huge lizards and turtles...

See awesome animals like Boom Boom the White Rhino...

Were told we were going to get to feed a giraffe. ( Justin was happy bout it, Cy not so much. :) )

Ryken loved getting to feed his carrot to Pilgrim the giraffe.

Justin too!

The safari tour guide was so good! She was awesome actually. She had one of the giraffes come right in the bus to get a snack of some little cookies. :)

Passed around and held an ostrich egg...

Saw LOTs of Zebra...

Went to the Tiger Splash (which that day there wasn't much splashing) :)

But it was still really cool!

Justin fed the tiger...Ryken chickened out, not surprised about that one. :)

Got to pet a GIANT snake...I was so surprised that Ryken actually wanted to do this.

Saw some pretty White Tigers...

And some kinda scary Hyenas. ( which scared the poo out of Cy when they made the weird noises they make. ) :)

There were LOTS of other cool animals but I decided not to take pics of ALL of them. :) It was so worth the drive up there for us. We may even have to go back again sometime.

Mother's day 2011

2011-05-13T13:07:00.000-07:00

I am SO blessed to call these little guys my boys! I am SO thankful and grateful for them. Even though I have many faults as a mom these two really are the best! And I am so glad they call me MOM! :)

Ryken picked out these flowers just for me! :) And he signed the card all by himself too! Cy got to do a little drawing on the card just for me too! It was the best. Exactly what I wanted for Mother's day.

Easter 2011

2011-05-03T13:20:00.000-07:00

We had a great Easter week. We pretty much had a fun thing to do at least every day. :) The boys loved all of it and so did we.

The boys colored easter eggs at home and then also with friends...they both LOVED it and were bummed when we were done doing it both times. I think they could color eggs everyday if I let them. :)

They also got to have more then one Easter egg hunt! 3 to be exact! (Ryken actually got to have 4 because he went to one for the Primary aged kids too) They had one with cousins at the Pioneer Park in Mesa while we waited for the Easter Pagent to start.

One with friends when we had a little get together like last year. (we have to keep this tradition up!)

And then their last one was with more cousins! They are going to become professional egg hunters! :)

Easter morning they both got their baskets full of goodies. And I enjoyed getting to see them dressed in their new church clothes for Easter too. :) (I don't have a little girl to buy an Easter dress for so I just get the boys new clothes instead. Still kinda fun. )

At church we enjoyed the talks on Christ and the boys had their Easter lessons about Christ's atonement and I got to give my lesson about his atonement also! Such a great time of year! I love getting the chance to reflect on Christ's sacrifice for all of us for at least one full day! This year we got to enjoy the Easter Pageant too! I was so happy that they boys were so well behaved during the performance. And were in awe at the end when Christ was raised up. I loved it. So thankful for his sacrifice for all of us.

Playing nice

2011-04-20T13:56:00.000-07:00

I don't know if other moms ever feel like all they ever hear from their kids is fighting with eachother and crying because one of the other kids hurt them and so on. But there are days when I feel like that is all I hear. So the other day I was SO HAPPY to hear and see my boys playing nice together. Playing nice and actually having fun together too. :)

Ryken taking a turn pulling Cy on the little wagon...Cy LOVING it!

Cy taking his turn and pulling Ryken around too.

I was so happy to see this! It made me think that they really can get along and be friends. :) I just hope for lots more days like this in the future too.

Great day!

2011-04-15T23:04:00.000-07:00

Isn't it so great when one of your friends that you grew up with, went to school with, lived with (more then once ) gets married? I sure think so! She made one BEAUTIFUL bride! I am so happy for her! And even more great is that she married into an awesome family, and now gets to call herself Mrs. Jones. :)

And another great thing about it is you get to see even more friends at the wedding. :) Like the B's! We all lived together, and are all still really good friends. So it was a great reason to have our own little B reunion.

And of course getting to see more of the girlfriends I grew up with. RAH! :) (remember that name girls? )

I know it was a happy day for Rashel and Beau, but it was also a pretty great day for me. Getting to see Rashel SO happy, and getting to see some of my GREAT friends! I love you all SO much!

Home gym

2011-03-13T14:05:00.000-07:00

Justin usually likes to work out at the station before he comes home from work. But sometimes he does a little working out at home too. The boys LOVE helping out by adding a little extra weight to his push-ups. :)

February fun!

2011-03-08T20:39:00.000-08:00

This past month we didn't do to many exciting things...then again I guess we don't really do alot of exciting things any month of the year. :) But we still did get out of the house and have a little fun. The weather is so nice right now, perfect for zoo outings! Probably like one every other week in February. :) (so happy we got zoo passes) The boys love it and it is even funner because we have friends that like to join us there. So if any other friends out there have passes or want to make a trip to the zoo let us know so we can meet up. :)

This picture makes me laugh and also freak out a little...Cy is obsessed with birds. This day at the zoo he was off chasing some birds and ducks and he seriously almost followed a duck into the water! I don't think i have ever ran so fast! I had to run over and grab him before he went in!

Ryken and his buddy Aeryn. If we are at the zoo we are more then likely there with her and her mommy and brother. They got us hooked. :)

My crazy kid trying to climb the fence to join the zebras! OH BOY! :)

While we have our fun trips to the zoo Justin got to have some fun too...we just came along to take pics. :) For Christmas I got him passes to go do some indoor...I guess go-cart racing is what you would call it. Any who he was also joined by his dad and brother-in-law, Cody. They guys all loved it. It wasn't as much fun for the ladies cause we were chasing around our little boys while waiting for their races to be done, but it was worth it to see how much fun the guys had.

US! :)

The guys all geared up and ready to go.

Justin coming around the corner. :)

After the races...yes that is my stud muffin of a hubby that got 1st place . :)

MY BOYS!!!

My boys...

2011-02-17T14:26:00.000-08:00

I LOVE my boys!

I really LOVE when they like to be silly and funny...

Like when they were silly and funny at McDonalds...

Some days I just CAN'T get enought of them. :)

So glad they are mine!

Finally A Christmas post...

2011-01-19T21:34:00.000-08:00

A Christmas post a month and a half late... I am way behind!!

We had a great Christmas! Especially because we were able to spend it with family, both of our families thru the month of December. The boys were spoiled....like usual. Here are some random pictures of our Christmas celebrations. :)

Saved the best picture for last....Ryken and Cy getting to sit on Santas lap....Cy is NOT a fan. :)

Halloween 2010

2010-11-04T15:24:00.000-07:00

We had a pretty fun Halloween this year. It is alot funner as an adult when you have a kid or more then one to dress up. :) This year our little guys were a Dinosaur and a Shark...

Ryken LOVED his costume! He is into Dinosaurs right now. And when we bought the costume he wanted to wear the head right after we bought it. SO he wore it around the mall that day. :) So he had no issues with wanting to put it back on and put on the rest of it too.

Cy on the other hand didn't like his costume at all! He hated it from the minute we were trying to get him dressed... He is only happy in this picture cause I was holding him, and even then he wasn't really even happy.

Our few attempts at getting a picture of both boys together in their costumes, and you can really tell how much Cy was not having it. :)

Once we got to the church building for our wards trunk or treat he seemed to be ok with having it on, cause he got to run around and he didn't even seem to remember he had it on.

See... cute little shark right?

Before the trunk or treat they had some little games for the kids to play.

Ryken played the cake walk a few times until he finally won a cookie on his 3rd try.

Cy was pretty much OBSESSED with the basketball game. He wanted to play it the whole time we were over there. And he didn't want to wait till it was his turn. SO he put up a pretty good fight till we finally got up for his turn.

Wishing he knew how to Hula Hoop. :)

Standing in line waiting for the costume parade.

Since I handed out candy during the trunk or treat we didn't get any pics of the boys going. They had tons of fun though. :)

Dino ready to head home. :)

On Halloween we were invited over to Justin's sisters house to have dinner and do some trick or treating in her neighborhood.

Mommy, Daddy and their dinosaur and shark. :)

Dark picture but its of Tristan, Cy and Ryken at one of the many houses they went to, waiting for the candy. :) All the boys had tons of fun. Cy was so funny once he realized he got some candy when he went to the door. He walked right up with the older boys and waiting for his piece of candy. Then he gave it to me to put into his bucket. :)

Ryken showin off all his loot.

And little shark Cy enjoying a few pieces of his candy.

We sure did have a fun time this year. The boys got way to much candy, and now that means I have to much candy to eat too. Maybe I should just toss some of it out. :)

Mother Nature's Farm...

2010-10-20T23:06:00.000-07:00

We got the chance to go back to Mother Nature's Farm again this year to pick up a pumpkin and for the boys to get to enjoy some fun at the little pumpkin patch and the farm too. Justin's sister Jessica and her 2 boys came with us as well as Justin's parents. So it was great to have more there to enjoy it with.

They have this cute pumpkin sign that the kids can stand by every year to see how much they have grown over the year.

Here was Ryken and he has grown a little since last year, I should of tried to get the other picture from last year up to compare. :)

And this year Cy got a chance too. And he was so excited about it. :)

Cy LOVED getting to run around outside so much!

My 2 little loves...and some pumpkins. :)

Ryken and his cousin Tristan posing on the tractor...

Cy and Kase getting their turn. :)

They all loved the little chickens. And of course Cy was the crazy one that kept sticking his fingers in the cage. So glad that he didn't get his finger pecked to hard.

They have some animals on the farm that you can see and if you can get them to come close enough touch them too. :) One of the pigs there had just had little piglets the day before. Here is one of them that the guy picked up and brought over for us to see. It was SO cute.

And here was the momma pig and some of the other piglets. She had 11 of them!

Ryken and Tristan trying to make their way thru the hay maze. They really enjoyed this and went a few times thru it.

Ryken picking out his little pumpkin...

And Cy with his. Ok this picture is horrible but he wouldn't hold still to get a good one. As soon as he picked up the pumpkin he threw it right down like it was a little ball. So this was mid through kinda of. :)

Deciding what letters to put on his pumpkin. I am pretty sure he used all of them. He LOVES letters...crazy boy! :)

Decorating away. :)

It was lots of fun getting out with family to do something fun. I love when we get to do stuff like this. I just wish it was more fall like weather around here. My poor boys are going to sweat like crazy in their Halloween costumes!

WAY BEHIND...

2010-10-13T21:20:00.001-07:00

So this guy that I LOVE tons, and I am crazy about him (and sometimes he makes me go crazy) :) well he had a Birthday awhile back. Yep awhile back, well how about a little over a month ago! Well yes I am way behind and now I am trying to get back on track. Well for his birthday I was wanting to try and do something fun and different since he was turning the big 30! But I didn't get to plan anything like that cause of all our crazy mishaps at the new house. Oh well! I did do something different though... I made him an apple pie! He loves apple pie so I got adventuious and made one. He said it was good. Here it is with a huge slice missing cause he couldn't wait till we sang happy birthday that night. :)

We got out to dinner on his birthday with us and the boys and his sister and her family. It was lots of fun! And after dinner we came home to open presents.

Got himself a new shirt and a new DVD. :) Oh and that yummy apple pie. :)

Ryken and I decorated his car for him too. I wanted him to be all embarrassed to drive it to work. I think it may have worked. :)

That weekend we also got to go out to dinner with our best buddies the Lee's. We ALWAYS have tons of fun with them.

Me and the Birthday boy!!

Gina and Kameron

I am so glad we have them as friends! They really are the best. So bummed we both moved recently and now we live even farther apart!! That better not stop us from getting to see them though. :) (I'm sure it won't since we have some of their furniture. ) :)

Me and Gina. ( I really shouldn't take pictures with my cute friends anymore. They make me look that much worse. )

Justin's parents watched the boys for us when we went out. So when we got back home he opened the present from his parents. He got a really nice Golf Polo.

Being a cheeseball showin it off. :)

I can't help but love my hubby!! Happy LATE 30th Birthday!! XOXO!

Picture time...

2010-09-07T20:04:00.000-07:00

We finally went and got the boys pictures taken. They both had birthdays in June, got the pictures taken in July, and I am finally posting them at the beginning of September... just a little behind. Cy finally has his 1 year pics and Ryken has his 3 year ones. So ENJOY the cuteness of our boys. :)

Cy wasn't a big fan of gettin his picture taken. But I expected that. Ryken on the other hand was enjoyin every minute of it. He has always been that way for the most part. :) I am was pleased with what we were able to get out of both of them. I just love getting to look back and see how much they have grown year after year.

Fun filled family weekends...

2010-08-04T22:26:00.000-07:00

We got out of the heat the last 2 weekends to go up north and spend time with some of my family. And we had tons of fun! The first weekend we went up for the 24th of July celebrations in Snowflake. And of course it was lots of fun and I hope we can get up there every year especially as the boys get older so they can enjoy it more too. :) We had lots of fun with fireworks that my parents had gotten. Ryken had his first sparkler experience and He LOVED it. Hopefully he isn't going to be some kind of phyro.

Then we got to sit and watch the annual parade. Ryken is older now that he actually likes it more since he can run out to get candy. But he still needs to work on that a little more. :) Thank goodness for awesome cousins that helped him get some of his own, and shared theirs with him too.

Ryken was also nice enough to share a sucker with Cy. It was his first sucker, and I am sure it won't be his last. Cause he LOVED it. :)

And Ryken got an otter pop at the parade too, and enjoyed breakin it open right then to eat it.

That weekend we also got to watch some good fireworks in Taylor. It took awhile to get them started cause we waited around the church parking lot for close to an hour and half probably. Which isn't much fun with a crazy 3 year old and a crazy fussy 1 year old. But once the fireworks started it was a little easier to control them. And of course we got to spend great time with family.

Then the following weekend we went up to Vernon to have our annual Baker family campout /reunion. We had to go up on Saturday cause of Justin's work schedule, and that was kinda stinky cause it rained the whole way up basically. And once we got to the campsite it rained that whole night. So we never got our tent up. We drove back to my parents house and stayed there and in the morning headed back up to the campsite. The boys still had lots of fun. And all I can say is Cy is all BOY! He loved being outside and playing in the rain and dirt. Ryken even enjoyed it too. Thanks to all his cousins. We brought up a little horse shoe set for the kids to play...

And of course we had to have some bubbles to keep the kids busy...

Coloring was another kid activity...

And Ryken wanted to do some flips. :) So Justin passed the time playin with the boys and helping with the flips.

Our camping family. :)

Ryken and his cousin Cordd. Best buddies!

OH and the kids found a pile of ashes my dad had gotten out of the fire, and decided it was funner to play in that then the dirt. :)

Us adults passed the time by playin cards and snacking away.

The boys were so pooped by the end of the campout. WE had a great time like always but I just wish we had actually gotten to camp! Oh well there is always next year. And hopefully then it won't rain the whole time. :)

Ryken is 3.

2010-07-08T10:39:00.000-07:00

Wow, I still find it hard to believe we have a 3 year old! But then I realise we do when he acts the way he does. :) He really is a good kid when it comes to certain things, but then there are the things that make Justin and I wonder sometimes. :) Since we had already had his and Cy's birthday party a week before his actual birthday we still wanted to try and make the day special for him. And I think Justin did just that, he brought Ryken his own smoothie from Jamba and also some fun balloons, what kid doesn't like balloons? :)

Can't you just tell how happy he is?

I had to put him in his birthday shirt again that day. Just to show off that he is 3 and all. :)

We decided that we would take the boys to Peter Piper Pizza again, and of course Ryken was all game for that decision. He wanted to play the games right when we got there. While we waited for the pizza he played some games...

Whack a mole...

A car racing game with Justin...

And of course he had to play one of his favorite tv show games.... Deal or no deal. :) And wouldn't you guess it he ended up with a case that had 100 tickets in it. He was so excited, Justin said he let Ryken pick all the cases himself too.

Showing off all his tickets.

After our fun filled night at Peter Piper we headed home to have some cake and Ice Cream and open a few more presents.

He loved his last minute decorated cake, can't you tell. :) And I know it looks alot like the one we made for Cy. What can I say we aren't very much into cake decorating at our house. :) He was very excited to get to open his presents, what 3 year old isn't right?

He got his very own laptop, cause he is obsessed with trying to play with our computer, wish my idea really worked that maybe he wouldn't try to play with our computer if he had this one of his own, but it didn't. :) Wishful thinking. He does like this atleast.

SO Excited for his own monster truck flaming crash ramp. :)

Got to test it out later with Daddy. :)

I think that he had a pretty good day and night for his birthday. And so did the rest of us. :)

Just a little bit about Ryken now...

He LOVES letters and numbers. He has for awhile, and loves to sing the ABC's and can count to atleast 30. He loves numbers so much that sometimes he will just get a calculator out and play with it. :) He is my little smart man and I am hoping takes after his daddy, with his smarts.

Another thing he likes about numbers is that he can tell time on a digital clock, he is always telling us what time it is when we are at home or in the car, and now likes to tell us the temperature outside when we are in the car cause of the thermometer in the car. :)

Can spell his name. (now i guess we should try to get him to write it. :) )

He likes shapes and colors alot too.

He likes to sing songs, and mostly ones that he learns in Nursery. Sometimes he will just want to keep singing songs over and over again when we are driving around.

Loves his little brother Cy guy, and is always wanting to wake him up every morning.

He loves puzzles and coloring as well as playing all of his fun board games.

Ryken just is an all around good kid as long as you catch him at the right time. :) But we love him no matter what, and can't wait to see what the next year is like with our cute, smart, loveable little 3 year old.

Boys combined birthday party.

2010-06-24T23:08:00.000-07:00

June is a busy month for us. It is basically another Christmas at our house. :) Cy's birthday is on the 10th and then Ryken's is 2 weeks later on the 24th. So this year and I am sure for many more years we had a combined birthday party for both of them. And it was pretty darn fun if you ask me. :) We had it at a party place in Tempe called "pump it up". It was fun for everyone, adults and kids. So we had lots of family and friends join us to help celebrate.

Cy in his new shirt showin off his new age. : )

And Ryken in his too, can't believe he is already 3! Crazy!

So at pump it up it is basically an indoor bounce house place. So there are slides and other fun things all over the place. Ryken was a little scared at first to do the slides alone but once he did it the 1st time he was all about it!

And of course I never got a great pic of him, cause every time he went down he was so fast. And always going down on his belly. Here he is at the top of the slide getting ready to go down.

Cy took a few turns on the slides too, but of course with me and Justin. Not sure he liked it much but I did. :)

Justin and Ryken taking a turn together...

they made it to the bottom. :)

All the kids that were there getting a group shot. :)

Cy eyeing his cupcake as everyone sang happy birthday to him. And of course once again he wanted nothing to do with the cupcake.

Ryken blowing out his candles with all his might. :)

There was this little party room we were in to have cake and open presents and they have the birthday kid sit in this big throne to open presents.

I got to test it out while I helped Cy open his presents. :)

Then Ryken got his turn, and believe me these boys got spoiled by all their friends and family with presents. They are so lucky to have such great people to celebrate with.

After we opened presents we were on a time limit at the place so we wanted to do lunch with everyone too so we headed over to Peter Piper to have some pizza and play games there. And that too was lots of fun!

Had to get a little picture with the new little 1 year old. :)

And of course another with both our birthday boys!

Once we were home and got the presents home to play with too, the boys were in heaven. :) Like I said it is like another Christmas, thank goodness it is 6 months between. :)

Cy LOVES his corn popper, and of course I think it is funny that he loves it so much, but can only take so much. (thanks for the great gift Bo and Nicole. :) )

And Ryken enjoying his new toy that helps teach him how to write his letters and draw other stuff too. He is such a funny kid and loves his letters, numbers and shapes. So this is a great thing for him.

So again we had a great birthday party and were so glad we were able to celebrate it with such great family and friends! So thank you everyone for everything. I still find it hard to believe that my boys are getting so big. We have a 1 year old and a 3 year old! CRAZY! The time goes by way to fast! We love our boys and are so happy they had such a great day.

Cy is 1!

2010-06-16T21:42:00.000-07:00

Wow where has the time gone. I really thought after having one baby turn one so fast that when I had a second that the time wouldn't go by even faster. But it has, Cy is already 1, and it seems to have gone by so fast, and actually TOO fast. I miss my baby. I remember I use to complain about how frustrating it was that Cy had to be held to fall asleep from the time he was a newborn up to when he was about 6 months old. And now I miss those days. Now I can't hold him for more then a few seconds it seems before he is all over the place. :) He has grown so much and has done things so fast that I know now why it seems like the last year went by so fast. We all love Cy and all the fun and crazy things he brings to our lives.

Here he is on his birthday. Sayin, "what I am 1 already? " :) And just being his cheesy little self.

We made him a cake and had a little birthday party for him just as a little family. He was in awe of the candle.

And then once we gave him his own cake to dig into... he cried. In true Cy form. :) He didn't like being mess I guess.

Then he got a little taste of the chocolate frosting and thought it wasn't too bad.

He got a little bit messier but still never ate any cake. He isn't a cake eater either I guess. So we can add that to the LONG list of things he doesn't eat.

And again in true Cy form. Screamin at the top of his lungs for no real reason. :)

And he got to test out his present opening skills...

And he got himself a fun little learning truck. (that really Ryken plays with more then Cy, go figure.)

And a fun little crocodile toy that he loves. :)

Testin out the toy before Ryken got ahold of it. He does like it when he gets to play with it. :)

Cy has grown to be such a great little baby when he wants to be that is. He sure is a momma's boy and if you around him and me enough you will learn that pretty fast. I know there are days when it can get to be tough that he only wants me but I know later on I am going to miss those times too. So for now I guess I should try to enjoy it. :)

He is walkin all over that place and has been for about a month and a half maybe 2 months. He is practically runnin places when he wants to get there.

He LOVES his brother. When Ryken is napping and Cy is awake I sometimes find him walkin back to Ryken's room tryin to tap on his door to find him. So when they are both awake you can mostly find them around each other.

He has 6 teeth now and a few breakin thru, which we hope break thru SOON!

He is SO ticklish, I love this about him. I know just what to do to get him to smile, laugh and giggle!

He still loves to take baths. And loves Pooka too.

There are many more things about Cy. But really all that matters is he is that he really is my favorite 1 year old little guy. And one of the cutest ones too. :) I know I am his mom so I have to say that but I think it is true,. :)

We love you Cy guy and can't believe you are already 1!

Another Birthday...

2010-06-04T22:28:00.000-07:00

I had another birthday come and go. I can't believe I am already 27! I feel so old. :) And once again I had a great birthday. Justin planned an early birthday get away for him and me. We were able to go to Tucson for a night and while we were there we saw Carrie Underwood in concert. It was lots of fun. And then on my actual birthday we were also able to get away and have a great night. Thanks to my friend Kyla and her hubby cause they watched our boys for us! And stickin with tradition we went out with our great friends Gina and Kameron Lee. We have been able to celebrate my birthday with them for the past few years and is always a great time. This year we got out to a yummy dinner and then after had a funny, good time at what was suppose to be a romantic movie. :) It was a great birthday once again! So thanks to everyone that made it that way.

Me and my boys the morning after my birthday. Eating the yummy Krispie Kreme donuts we got for my birthday. Ryken and Justin sang Happy birthday to me with the donuts as my cake. :)

Stuffin my face with the yummy ice cream cupcakes that Justin picked up for me!

And me and my wonderful, amazing hubby that made my birthday a great one! Thanks again HUN! Love you!!

10 months...

2010-04-10T09:36:00.000-07:00

Dang can't believe my little man is already that much closer to being 1! But its true. And he sure is one that I need to keep my eye on at most times. He is going to be a major trouble maker I am sure. Which I am not ready for. :)

He likes taking his baths for the most part still. Except for the fact that they don't last long cause I have to get him in and out before he decides he wants to stand up and try to climb out of the tub. He is always getting into the dishwasher if I am doing dishes or unloading them. He managed to learn how to use the little hippo thing we have to help him learn to walk. Ryken never really like it or any other one he tried. But Cy has taking to this one as well as the one at Justin's parents house. He now has 5 teeth and I am pretty sure there are 2 more on top that are trying to break thru too. (not fun for anyone) And I am kinda worried about his first top 2 cause they seem to still be really small and not all the way down. So hopefully he doesn't have REALLY small teeth on top. :) And he still LOVES his pacifier. Which also worries me cause I am dreading taking it away from him! Even though its still a little more time for that. Oh and I really have to keep my eye on him lately cause he has decided he wants to learn how to walk! Before I want him to that's for sure, and also way before Ryken decided to even try to take steps. Cy hasn't really walked yet but he takes a lot of steps by himself. So I think we will still have a crawler on our hands for a little longer. I hope so at least. :) I caught this little video of him the other night taking a few steps...

So I really am hoping that we can keep him crawling for a little longer. I just wanted to really get on video that he knows how to do it now. So I will keep my fingers crossed he will take his time still. :)

Easter doings...

2010-04-06T16:30:00.000-07:00

We had lots of fun stuff going on this past week and all of it was involving Easter stuff... We got together with some of our friends and colored eggs.

Please excuse this horrible grin of his. :) If you look close he has a little blue around his mouth. That's cause once he took the spoon out of the color he decided to put it in his mouth with some of the coloring left on. :)

One of the finished product.

Cy was content while the eggs were being colored by stuffin his face with his snacks. To bad it only lasted so long. :)

While our friends were over we had an Easter egg hunt too...

I think they had a pretty good time finding all those eggs.

The kiddos also got to do a little jumping. We tried to wear them down as much as possible. :)

Then on the weekend we traveled up to Woodruff to visit my parents for the weekend. And while we were up there we headed in to Snowflake for Ryken to get to go to the egg hunt there too. Even though it was more of an Easter egg scramble. :)

All ready with his basket...

And they are off...Headed straight for the eggs. And he got lots of them. :) 10 real and one plastic, so that he could turn in the plastic on and get a little prize. :)

Then of course we had a few more egg hunts ahead that weekend... Another one in Woodruff

And he loved it and the candy too.

Then the Easter bunny came and brought lots of fun stuff for the boys.

Ryken pointing out all his loot. ( yes he is wearing winter pajamas, don't judge they still fit and it was cold there. :) )Cy checkin out all of his goodies too.

After spending the weekend up north with my parents we traveled back home and stopped by Justin's parents house to spend time with them on Easter too. And then of course while we were there Ryken and his cousin Tristan got to have ANOTHER egg hunt. :)

All ready to go...Hunted them all down...and counting all this eggs again, for the last time this year. :) He had so much fun this past week and weekend. And I am sure he is all practiced up for some more egg hunting next year. We hope everyone had a GREAT Easter!

9 months old...

2010-03-22T21:43:00.000-07:00

Its almost hard to believe that Cy is already 9 months old. He is growing up so much, he still has quite the personality and some days I am still trying to adjust to it. ;) He has lots of happy moments and lots of unhappy moments still. And to me it seem like they are mostly unhappy, but then again I am with him 24/7. But honestly, some days are better then others for both me and him. He still loves his brother, and his brother loves him... most days. :)

He is still crawling all over the place and I think he really wants to learn how to walk. So that he can get around better with his brother. :) But then again I think he would really like to walk so that he can get around better and follow me more. It seems every time I am in the kitchen trying to wash dishes or cook or clean he is always right at my feet trying to pull himself up to me. Or if I get on the floor trying to take a picture I get this...

him bound and determined to climb up me for me to pick him up. What can I say I guess he just can't get enough of me. I am sure that will only last for so long. :) And of course if I move him and try to get away for just a minute I usually get this reaction out of him...

I think he may end up with my temper, NOT a good thing. :) I am just so glad that at the end of the day I get lots and lots of smiles from him and I am able to smile myself. Cause he does that for me. Here are just a few cute pictures of him...

Sittin in the bathroom sink waiting for me to get all the bath stuff ready, and also just so I could get a picture. His BIG, BLUE eyes! I am sure he was on his way to getting to me in this picture. :)

And of course his worried, old man face. :) Still only has his 2 bottom teeth. But the top 2 are breaking thru as well as another bottom one. Lets just hope they all come in soon. Cause he is NOT a good teether.

Touch A Truck...

2010-03-02T22:45:00.000-08:00

Last Saturday I really wanted to get out of the house to do something. So i looked on the Internet to see if there was anything fun to do, that Ryken would enjoy. I found out there was this "touch a truck" thing going on in Glendale. So we decided to make plans to go to it. And at first I wasn't so glad we did go. Ryken was a major stinker! But he eventually warmed up and wanted to actually get in some of the things they had there. But it did help that his cousin was there and getting into them too. :)

The first thing we saw was the Oscar Meyer wienermobile. Ryken was not to excited to get into a big hotdog looking vehicle. But eventually he made is way in.

He also got a wiener whistle to take home with him, and of course to use to annoy me. :)

There were also a few fire trucks there and he got a chance to check out a few of them. I think his favorite one was the Glendale fire truck. He was wanting to climb all over in it.

He loved to get to sit in the front of the vehicles and "drive" them. :)

There was also this cool pink firetruck. It was a breast cancer awareness one. And the fire fighter was even wearing pink fire suit. It was pretty cool too cause you could sign it too. Ryken loved all the firetrucks there but I think one of the favorites of both him and Justin was the SWAT truck, I am pretty sure it was called "The Bear".

And it was fun to get to tell Ryken that Daddy drives this truck at work. :)

And again he loved climbing around all over in this one too. So we made our way out the top to see what and who we could see. :)

Ryken in the drivers seat AGAIN. :) All full of smiles. He also got to sit up in a big rig. Wish we would of told him to pull the horn on this one. :)

It was a fun all around trip for the day. Even though Justin had just had surgery a few days before he made his way out with us using his crutches. And we brought Cy with us too of course and it was a little hard for him since it was nap time and we weren't home for it. He was a little tired looking...

Don't you agree? But he also started to not feel well that day either. But we made it thru the fun outing to see all the fun trucks for the day.

8 months...

2010-02-25T20:07:00.000-08:00

My little guy is growing up. :( It makes me sad to think how much time has already gone by since he has been born. Its crazy to think that his first birthday is just around the corner. Cy is still one cute little baby! I can't seem to get enough squeezing of him done thru out the day. It is a darn good thing he is so cute and squeezable, cause he has caused me some headaches. :) But he is worth everything to me. He still seems to want to put anything and everything into his mouth. Which Ryken never really did much of.

Here he is trying to squish a little basketball in his mouth. :) This ball now has major teeth marks in it left from his 2 little teeth. He hasn't gotten anymore yet. He is also full of lots of funny faces. he still loves to stick out his tongue too.

See seriously could you not just squeeze this funny faced little boy. :) Cy also LOVES to jump. If you have ever held him you know what I am talking about. As soon as he is standing up on your lap he is jumping away. I don't know why he loves it so much but he does.

I figured he would like the johnny jumper since he likes to jump so much but its not a big hit with him. That is unless Ryken is around running back and forth by him. Then he goes crazy and jumps all over the place. Cy is also SO ticklish. I think you can tickle him anywhere and he laughs and giggles and gives his big mouth grin.

Tickling him is one of my favorite things to do cause it makes him laugh, which of course makes me laugh too. :) Cy really is a fun happy baby as long as someone is constantly around him. And when someone isn't around he can now come and find you. He is crawling all over the place now days. It is a good thing and a bad thing. Good cause he now gets around and it kinda helps with him being fussy, bad cause sometimes it doesn't help and instead he just crawls around and cries too. And good cause he has fun finding new stuff to play with. Especially Ryken's cars...

but that only usually happens when Ryken is napping, otherwise it is a bad thing cause then Ryken is not happy. :) Also a bad reason is cause he is going to be a baby that gets into everything. 1st major thing he got into was the dogs food and water...

Atleast he didn't eat it... YET. He is also pullin himself up on stuff. I think he really just wants to walk so he can get around with his brother.

And before I know it he will be up and walking, and then running around with his brother. Man I wish I could keep him small forever. Atleast I know he will be my Cy guy forever. :)

New family pics...

2010-02-09T09:52:00.000-08:00

I decided I wanted to get some new family pictures done, cause the last ones we had gotten done before we did our Christmas card was when Cy was only a month old. So we went and got them done at good ol' Jc Penny again. And they turned out okay but probably would have been alot better if I wasn't in them. Oh and if Cy was smiling. :)

But there were some that I figured were good enough to get.

I think Ryken may of had the most fun of all...

Cause he laughed at everything the photographer said and did, Justin just smiled and probably wanted to roll his eyes too. :)All my handsome boys that I love so much. :)

Me and my 2 little guys. :)

I am pretty happy we decided to go get them done, cause it is always fun to look back and see how much we all have changed... Well how fun it is to see how Ryken and Cy have changed. :)

6 and 7 months...

2010-01-20T21:56:00.000-08:00

The time has flown by again pretty darn fast. The past 2 months seem to have gone by pretty fast at least. :) So fast I never got around to posting for Cy's 6th month and now he is 7 months old. SO i just decided to make one post of both.

Cy is a pretty happy baby for the most part. He still has his moments where he will only be happy when he is being held by someone. Which does make things hard sometimes. But we all get by. :) He still has some issues with eating but is getting a little better. He just doesn't like to eat the fruits cause they seem to make his acid reflux worse. So we have stuck with the veggies for now. He is pretty much sleeping thru the night finally and started doing better about it when he turned 6 months old. He does still have one late night bottle before he sleeps all the way thru. He doesn't like to take many naps and when he does they are not very long, or maybe not as long as I would like them to be. :) He loves to play pat-a-cake and peek-a-boo. He is also VERY ticklish. Which makes it fun to get him to laugh, and we all LOVE to hear him laugh. He is a pro at sitting up now and he seems to want to move on to the next stage and crawl but hasn't gotten to that point yet. He now has 2 teeth on the bottom, more coming in here soon I am pretty sure.

His cute little smile makes me smile and melts my heart too.

He still loves to stick out his tongue, and even more now that he has gotten some teeth.

Loves his brother Ryken, and always is watching him. And Ryken loves to make Cy laugh. :)

Trying to test out all 4's but not that well at it. :)

Eating a cracker for the first time and wasn't a big fan of it.

Mister mischief maybe his name in the future. And I am sure he will give this look alot. :)

Smiley guy with rosey cheeks. (i am pretty sure the rosey cheeks were from his teething.)

7 months old and now getting better at the all 4's thing, but still no crawling.

Check out his 2 chompers. And his big blue eyes. Man I just want to squeeze him sometimes. :)

Pulled out the wipes and was chewing on one, he likes to do that and also chew on the wash cloth during bath time. :)

It is still so crazy that he is already 7 months old. He is for sure a different baby then his brother was but it is fun getting to know his personality too.

Christmas 2009

2010-01-06T21:35:00.000-08:00

We had a pretty darn good Christmas this year. Justin was able to take the day off, so we stayed home this year and just had to wait that morning for him to get home to open our presents. Good thing Ryken wasn't into ripping open all the gifts right when he woke up, but I am sure next year he will be. :) He was so fun to watch this year, cause he actually loved opening his presents and knew how to. And of course he wanted to "help" everyone else open theirs. And we were all okay with that, until next year when Cy may have a problem with it. :) The boys both got lots of fun stuff this year.

Showing off his stocking. :)And he found some fun stickers inside, as well as a couple books and some fun coloring stuff too.

Cy was already surrounded by toys, and his stocking too.

And he got another fun toy, which I think Ryken has played with more than Cy has. lol

All of the fun stuff that Cy got from Santa and us. :)

Ryken with all of his loot from Santa and us too. :)

They also got one big gift to the both of them but I am sure Ryken will get a little more use out of it now.

A little bounce house!! Ryken was a little scared to get in at first, so I had to climb in and he followed. And after he was in he was there for a good 40 mins. He LOVED it.

Cy wasn't as into it as Ryken was, but he was into checking it all out. :)

We also went over to Justin's parents that day and enjoyed opening a few presents over there and having a yummy lunch too! I wanted to try and get a little family picture and this was the best we got...

It is hard to get a good one with such little wiggle worms. :) and this was the best I could get of the 2 of the boys together...

And boy do they look scared. LOL! We had a great Christmas this year. Ryken was pretty sad when it was all over, he asked to open more presents when he woke up the next morning. And now that the Christmas tree is down he had also asked a few times where his Christmas tree went. I was so glad that he enjoyed it so much this year and I am looking forward to all the years to come to be able to to teach him all about the real meaning of Christmas! I am so thankful for the reason that we celebrate Christmas, and the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. No better reason then him to have such a wonderful celebration.

Family fun before Christmas...

2009-12-22T20:09:00.000-08:00

Every year we always have some fun family time before Christmas day. We usually get to have a fun family party with my mom's side of the family and then also a fun family party with my dad's side of the family too. We have had Family Christmas parties with both family's for as long as I can remember. So it is lots of fun to get to do it now and have my family involved too. :) This year I forgot to take my camera up with us to my mom's family Christmas party. But we had lots of great times like every year. We got to hang out with family we don't get to see much and eat lots of yummy food and just talk and remember all the fun past parties. We also got to go watch the Holbrook Light parade, which we have been doing for quite sometime too. I stayed in the warm car with Cy for the parade and Justin braved the cold and watched it outside with Ryken. Ryken had so much fun just watching all the people and floats in the parade. :) And of course we got to have some fun at my parents house, and Ryken LOVED getting to hangout and play with is cousins.

Before we had the party for my dad's side of the family we got some of us together and went to Mccormick Ranch Railroad park and rode the train and saw all the lights out there. Everyone else stayed later and saw Santa but we had to be on the road for our little guys to get to bed. But we enjoyed the time we were there.

Here was most of our group, pretty far back in the train even. We had close to 25 with us there that night. :)Ryken and Justin got front row seats and here we were going thru the tunnel with lights, Ryken loved all of it, Train ride + Christmas lights= An awesome time in Ryken's eyes. :)

The cute train in the front of the park. Ryken and Cy weren't to happy when I was trying to take the pic. lol

At the other family party we got to go on a fun hayride/caroling around a neighborhood by my uncles house. It was lots of fun. Chilly but fun.

Justin and Cy all bundled up before the ride. (ryken of course wouldn't let me take his picture)

We also did a gift exchange at both parties, and the last few years we just do the gift exchange along with a story. So as you listen to the story you have to pass your presents around the circle. It gets kinda tricky and funny when the little ones all try to do it. But they all seem to have fun, especially since there is a present at the end of it for them. :)

Here are some of the kiddos in the circle ready to start the passing of gifts.

Ryken got something that he LOVED, color wonder stuff!

We got the chance to take a few fun pictures while with everyone too.

Myself and Justin with the boys and also my parents and grandparents.

Mom and dad in the cute nativity cut out...

And Justin and myself too. lol

Then of course we got to have one more family party with my parents, brother's and all of their families. And this year it was lots of fun cause Mickey, Kelly and the girls came from Vegas to share in the fun!

Ryken getting ready to rip into his present...

And he got another winner, Gator Golf!

Cy was asleep when we did gifts so Tatum opened his and he got himself...

A musical turtle. :) That both him and Ryken of course LOVE.

The kiddos also got to have fun by frosting some sugar cookies, and they had lots of fun decorating the cookies and eating the cookies and frosting. :)

Here was Ryken and his masterpiece. Did it with some help from aunt Nicole. :)

Cy had fun at the party with his Uncle Mickey and all his girls as well as all the other aunts, uncles and cousins

Ryken joined in on the Karaoke fun, and sang his ABC's. :)

Since all of my parents grandkids were here this year they had to take the chance to get a picture with all of them, so here they are with all 11 grandkids and they have one more on the way. :)

Then we also got the chance to take the boys to see Santa at the Mall since we missed out at the train park. Ryken was so excited to see Santa and sit on his lap and that is all he talked about on the way to the mall. But of course once we got there and he saw him it was a different story. So it was a good thing there wasn't any other kids in line so we were able to chat with Santa and then Ryken decided it was ok to sit on his lap and talk to him too. After that it was tons of fun for him. :) And Cy, well he doesn't know much different yet. But we did get a pretty cute picture out of the visit.

Cute right? I sure think so. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas!!

5 months...

2009-11-11T20:38:00.000-08:00

Wow, almost half a year old! My little Cy guy is getting up there. :) We are still enjoying all the joy he has been bringing to our family. Things are still about the same when it comes to his being fussy alot. But he also gets in alot of smiles and laughs too thru out the days. Which make us all smile and giggle.

He has started rolling over from his back to his belly, only one way so far. And then gets stuck on his belly and pretty much freaks out. So hopefully his next trick will be learning how to roll from his belly back to his back.

He is pretty obsessed with his toes and playing with them alot. He also likes to get in a little bit of fun playing with his rattle.

And he concentrates on it very hard. And he still curls up his toes like daddy too. :) We gave him some of his first tastes of Rice cereal this past month too and this is pretty much what he thought of it...

:) It isn't his favorite, and he for sure hasn't taken to eating it as well as Ryken did for the first time. But we are still working on it.

He is also likes to play with his tongue quite a bit and is always munching on his fingers or ours if we let him.

He is also getting pretty darn good at sitting up for a little bit by himself. So we are going to keep trying extra hard at that cause it seems to make him the happiest. I think he just wants to see what is going on all the time. All I know is the past 5 months have flown by pretty darn fast for us. And like I said before we are enjoying all the laughs and smiles we get from our chunky little guy every day. :)

Halloween 09

2009-11-04T21:56:00.000-08:00

We had a great Halloween this year. By far the funnest so far because Ryken was pretty much loving it. We had to do a little convincing at first to get him to wear his costume. But once he heard that he would get lots of candy when he wore his costume, he was all for it. :) And it was also fun to get to see how cute both Ryken and Cy were in their costumes.

Ryken "the bat"

Cy "the giraffe"

We were able to get out and do 2 Trunk or Treats. We went to our ward party on Friday and played games and Ryken got to go around and get lots of candy with his cousin Tristan. He of course loved everything about it.

Here they were relaxing after all the walking around getting candy.

Cy stayed behind and helped me pass out candy to all the other adorable trick or treaters.

Then on Saturday we got to go out to Maricopa for the 3rd year in a row and do some more fun Trunk or Treating with our friends the Lee's. It was lots of fun to get to take Ryken and Porter around and see how much fun they had.

Ryken with his friend Porter "Peter Pan".

And Cy with Anastyn "Tinkerbell"

And finally an adorable picture of both of my little guys all tired out from a long evening of fun, friends and lots of candy. Thanks Lee's for inviting us out there again this year. We always have so much fun with you guys. :) Until next Halloween.

2 trips to the pumpkin patch...

2009-10-31T11:19:00.000-07:00

I wanted to take Ryken to a pumpkin patch last year but we never did, and so I was bound and determined to get there this year. :) And I think he had a pretty good time. We got to go once as a family and then a second time when Justin's sister was here with her little boys. We ended up just driving to Gilbert to go to the one there both times. And like I said before we had lots of fun.

Justin and Ryken being the silly cow and pig. :)Ryken got to feed the goats and cow and chickens. And boy did he LOVE it. Picking out his very own pumpkin to...

decorate with lots of fun stickers. :)Here he was with his final product. So proud and happy. All my boys trying to make it thru the hay bale maze. Ryken did pretty darn good everytime he went thru it too. Here are the boys with all the pumpkins to pick from. We got a pretty good one to take home and carve.Here was Ryken a few days later with his cousin Tristan. Posing on the tractor together. lol, Ryken wasn't to happy about doing this for some reason. But he finally got the courage to sit on it for the picture. :)Cy was able to borrow this cute little hat from his cousin. And when it was folded up like that it made him look like Gilligan, from Gilligan's Island. Maybe we should have dressed him up as him for Halloween. :)This second trip to the pumpkin patch Ryken was brave enough to get in the bounce house. He never has wanted to before but his cousin got brave and did it so Ryken decided to also. And he didn't want to get out once he was in. And of course we had to get a picture of him by the big pumpkin so we can see how much he grew when we get back next year to enjoy all the fun again. :)

5 years!

2009-10-28T21:24:00.001-07:00

Another year has passed, and that means that he has stuck it out one more year with me. :) Justin may be pretty crazy for making it thru the past 5 years but I sure am glad he has stuck it out. And I still look forward to the many years ahead of us, and the many more anniversaries ahead too.

We were able to get a night away without the boys, thanks to the planning of my husband and with the help of my parents. It was a great little get away and a much needed one too. So thanks mom and dad again for taking great care of our little guys for us. And thanks to my hubby for being so sweet and thoughtful and planning the night away for us.

Still smiling after the 5 married years together + the over one year of dating. :) I LOVE you Justin, and always will. XOXOXO!

LOVE!!

2009-10-16T22:31:00.000-07:00

Have I told you lately how much I LOVE these 2?

Well if I haven't I LOVE them with all of my heart. :)

4 months old...

2009-10-11T21:18:00.000-07:00

4 months and counting. Cy is still pretty much the same kind of baby as he was last month, with the screaming and crying part. But he still gets a few smiles in every so often. We also found out that he has a little bit of an acid reflux problem. So he has a little bit of a spit up problem which Ryken also had but Ryken never had a problem with keeping his weight up. So he is on some meds for that but not sure if they are helping out. We shall see what the doctor says at his check up in a few days. I am hoping she has good news with his weight gaining so that we don't have to do further testing. Keeping my fingers crossed. All I can say is that most days I feel like a brand new mom. I am dealing with new things when it comes to our little Cy guy that I never had to conquer with Ryken. I am just so glad he is so darn cute. That is what makes it worth every hour, minute and second that he cries. :)

My mister BIG eyes. :)Testing out the Bumbo for the first time. This is one of the things that he will actually sit in for more than a minute and not cry. :)Little brother, and Big brother. :)Tried to get a first bath together picture. :)Just my cute little Cy guy all bundled up.

Happy guy!4 months old!!

Family time...

2009-09-28T22:24:00.000-07:00

Justin had to leave and go to Alabama for a week to do some training for work. So we decided to try and get some family time in before he had to leave. And so we did what we seem to love to do and went to one of the parks in the area that has a little train and carousel. :) Bonus: This one was a little closer to the house, had a good deal going on that day, and had a few extra rides too. Negative: It was pretty hot out that day, and we were out in that heat.

Ryken and mommy on the train. Daddy and Cy on the carousel. :) (so cute, right? Poor Justin was pooped that morning from working all night but he was a trooper and hung out with us anyways.)

Ryken enjoying one of the many rides on the carousel.

Trying to fly his little helicopter.

Cruising on a funny looking car. :) He seemed to like the other rides but not nearly as much as he loves to ride the trains. :) It was great to have that family time and I can't wait till the week is over so we have our complete family again when Daddy gets home. :)

Another zoo outing...

2009-09-17T10:58:00.000-07:00

We decided to make a little trip to the zoo on Wednesday, and to make that trip even better it was FREE for us to get in the zoo. And the weather was pretty nice too, not as hot as it has been the last few weeks. Ryken was pretty excited to go. Justin asked him before we got to the zoo what animals he wanted to see. And we were surprised to hear him say that he wanted to see the Giraffes and Elephants. :) So thank goodness we got to see both of them.

The Giraffes were the very first stop. And we were so glad they were out and even kinda close.

Then we saw the Zebras. But I don't think Ryken was to thrilled with them. :)

The Elephant wasn't out when we first got to the area. But then he slowly made his way out and then Ryken was able to get a pretty good look at him. :)

Here Ryken and Justin were checking out the bear.(not sure what kind. :) )

We also thought these huge turtles were pretty cool too. After strolling around the zoo for awhile we decided to stop and eat some lunch.

Here is Cy having a little lunch of his own. :)

Ryken looking like a lion with his big mouth. He couldn't wait to chow down on his Gogurt. :)

After lunch we went around and saw a few more animals but it was starting to get to hot for us. So we headed back and of course Ryken just had to ride the carousel.

And he had lots of fun doing it. :) We had a great time together as a family and once we got in the car and on the road this is how Ryken was feeling...

He was out like a light bulb. :) Another great trip to the Phoenix Zoo. :)

3 months old...

2009-09-11T14:23:00.000-07:00

That is right folks Cy is 3 months old now. And he is pretty much a cute, fussy, adorable, always seems to be crying, cuddly, can't get to stop screaming baby. :) He is all those things rolled up into a little chunky guy. So any day now I am waiting for all that screaming and crying to get better. I keep hearing it gets better after 3 months, so any day now will be good for me. But really he is a fun baby when he isn't crying.

He is getting a little better at sleeping at night. But during the day that is another story. He is the biggest cat napper there ever was. It is pretty much the most annoying thing to me besides the screaming. :) So hopefully here soon he will get better at the naps too. Then mommy will be a much happier mommy.

He loves his daddy, and is always willing to give him smiles. He loves watching his big brother and seems very interested in him. And I guess he loves to talk to me, and I even get a few smiles from him too. :) Here is the proof...

see I told you I had proof of his cute little smiles.

Getting some brotherly love from Ryken. :)

Getting a little tummy time on daddy. :) (justin is the best at making sure tummy time gets done.)

So interested in what Ryken is doing, keeping a close eye on him. :) Ryken is always interested in what Cy is doing too.

My chubby little 3 month old. Time is flying by it seems. 3 months already. WOW!

Birthday shout out...

2009-09-10T17:20:00.001-07:00

Today Justin turned the big 29! Crazy one more year and he will be 30, well I guess you can do the math. :) I just wanted to give him a birthday shout out and tell him I love him SOOOO Much! Thanks for being the best husband to me and the most awesome and loving daddy to our little guys! :) I wish I could give you everything you wanted but you know just as much as I do that will never happen. LOL! Happy Birthday!!

Ryken's new thing...

2009-09-03T15:12:00.000-07:00

Every little kid seems to like to play with and put on other peoples shoes. Well Ryken got a late start on doing that and now he seems to be catching up. Because lately he has had a thing with wearing around my shoes as well as Justin's. Basically and thing he can slip his feet into he will put on. But since its hot out all we seem to wear is flip flops so he just wears them after us. : )

And the other day he found my slippers so he had to try them out as well.

: ) I love that it looks like he has no legs. He is such a silly little guy. I'm just glad he is getting into our shoes and not any other crazy thing that will create a huge mess. So go ahead and play with all the shoes you want! : )

He also is obsessed with coloring in the Color Wonder coloring books. It was the best investment I could have made. : ) He would seriously just sit there and color for probably and hour. And hey they are markers but he can't mess up anything else except the pages.

Here he was contently coloring. Then he realized I had the camera and...

I got this funny face. : ) I think I may be stocking up on these coloring books since he enjoys them so much.

After bath time...

2009-08-28T20:28:00.000-07:00

I got these cute little pictures of my adorable little guys...

Then later in the day I wanted to try and get another smile from Cy and catch it on the camera...

Got it, a smile!

And whenever I take a picture of Cy then Ryken wants in on the fun too...

Got it, kind of a smile. : )

Got to love them, I know I do.

2 month stats...

2009-08-19T22:42:00.000-07:00

We got Cy to the Doctor for his 2 month check ups. And his stats are...

Weight- 12 pounds 6 ounces, 70%
Height- 22 1/2 inches long, 50%

I can't remember his head size but it was also 50% : )

So pretty much he is a short fat kid. : ) No but really the Dr said that everything looked good for him and on top of that she even said he was handsome. Which I totally had to agree with her.(even though she probably says that to every little boy that is there. )

He also had to get 4 shots. Which he didn't like at all. His normally big eyes sure got a whole lot bigger after he got poked. This was pretty much his face after his shots...

I took this later that night trying to show off his battle wounds. : ) But he wasn't up for it.

But the next day he was back to being a pretty happy little Cy guy. I was able to snap this shot of him...

I LOVE this smile of his.

Last minute trip...

2009-08-18T21:32:00.000-07:00

On Friday me and the boys made a last minute trip to Vegas with my parents to visit my brother Mickey and his family. And when I mean last minute, I really mean it. I called my mom and asked where they were and she said she was just leaving Holbrook. So I asked her if they would wait for us in Flagstaff till we got there. And them being the nice parents they are they said yes. So I packed up some stuff for us and got us ready and headed out the door. After we met them in Flagstaff we were on our way. I was hoping Ryken would take a nap once we got in with my parents. But he was being the stubborn 2 year old he is. Well once he got relaxed and coloring he just couldn't fight being tired and he pretty much passed out while coloring...

When we got there that night we were able to make it to a late night dinner buffet. And Ryken was able to fill up on pizza, pasta and cheese. : ) Oh and he even got a little ice cream cone too.

When Cy was awake and being good for a change, he was being held and watched after either by my mom, my sister in law Kelly, or my nieces Kylie and Kassi. The girls loved getting to help take care of him and hold him everyday we were there. And it was nice for me to have them do that. : )

Being in a house where 3 little girls live there weren't a whole lot of things that weren't the color pink. Which means if there was a Cowboy hat there it would have to be pink, Well it was a cowboy hat to Ryken but a cowgirl hat to Kyndl. But whatever it was I had to get a shot of Ryken wearing it. (I am totally bummed that I never even got a picture of Kyndl while we were there. : ( )

Once we made our trip back home it all started well. Both boys were asleep not far from the house. But that only lasted for so long. But we made due with everything. And Cy was pretty content in his car seat for the trip.

And we had to find a few things to keep Ryken happy. So I found some fruit by the foot and that worked for awhile, maybe not as long as I would have liked but hey it worked.

So I am happy to say that we made it back and I didn't go to crazy while we were there. Even though Ryken went basically 3 days with no nap and no good bedtime routine. He was a major turd and I felt bad for everyone. And then I also was happy I didn't go to crazy when I had to listen to both Cy and Ryken scream in the car for the last 45 mins of the trip home. We made it home and we were so glad we had the chance to go with Grandma and Grandpa Baker. And we really enjoyed getting to see Mickey, Kelly and the girls too. So thanks everyone for the great last minute trip to Vegas!

2 months old...

2009-08-11T22:40:00.000-07:00

Cy is already 2 months old. Crazy how the time has gone by so fast. I keep hearing from friends that your second baby and any others you have seem to grow up way faster than the first one. And that kinda makes me sad. So I will try and enjoy the time I have of him being a baby while I have it. : ) Even though sometimes it is harder than others. At the end of the night I am truly grateful for my little Cy guy.

*he is wearing mostly 3 month clothes.

*he is cooing and smiling now.

*he hates his car seat

*he likes his pacifier some of the time, (which maybe a good thing or a bad not sure yet. : ) )

*he doesn't like tummy time

*has started sleeping alot more during the night.

*loves to be held during the day

*hates to be put down during the day. (not fun for mommy)

*he is starting to get little rolls. (which I love!)

*and his little chin dimple seems to be more noticeable now too.

*he seems to really love his big brother Ryken, and Ryken loves him too. : )

Smiles...

2009-08-06T22:37:00.000-07:00

Cy has started to smile. Which makes me smile, and I love it. So every once in awhile if he is being a happy little baby then I can get one of these out of him...

And of course there are also a few times during the day that even Ryken can make me smile. Especially when he is being goofy like this...

( you may notice a fat lip on Ryken, yep he got it running down the hallway. But it has since gone back to normal. )

I love my boys and I love that they can get me to smile. Cause some days that is all I need is a smile from the 2 of them.

Cy's blessing day...

2009-08-04T14:33:00.001-07:00

Justin was able to bless Cy at church on Sunday. Justin gave him a great blessing, and Cy was even good thru the whole thing. Which made me very happy, cause I think that was my biggest worry. : ) It was great to have some family and friends there with us for the special day.

Here was Cy after his big day. He looks totally surprised right? Well that is how he looks alot of the time. His eyes are so darn big. : ) We ended up using the same outfit we blessed Ryken in. And I am lucky it fit Cy. It was pretty big on Ryken when he was blessed because he was blessed at 5 weeks and Cy was 7 weeks when he was blessed. But it fit, maybe a little snug but we made it work. : )My little guys! So darn cute, don't you think? : )Our little family snapshot for the day. : ) Sometimes it is still hard to believe that we are a family of 4 now. Of course Ryken doesn't look at the camera when I wanted a shot of my and my little guys.All the Buchberger boys in their Sunday best. : )

Baker Family Campout...

2009-07-29T13:51:00.000-07:00

It was that time of year again for our Baker family camp out/reunion. We had a pretty good time even though not everyone was able to make it and we got up there a day after everyone else. I was pretty worried about how the boys would do sleeping. I had good reason to since Ryken doesn't sleep good anywhere other than at home. So of course we had issues with him and sleeping but Cy did good. He woke up the same as he does at home. During the day it was great. Ryken got to run around with his cousins and play in the great weather. And Cy was held by about everyone else except for myself and Justin. So we basically got a little brake from the kids in a way while we were there. : ) Now we are back in the heat of the valley and are wishing we could be back in the cool weather. It was great, we didn't even really get rained on while we were there it was just nice and cool. We even wore sweatshirts. (except for Justin cause he is Mr tough guy.) : ) Here are a few pics from our little weekend camping trip...

Justin modeling our new tent that we invested in since we could barely fit in our other tent last year with 3 of us. Now we have plenty of room. : )Ryken and Daddy by the warm camp fire. Cy and Ryken enjoying their morning milk. : ) Ryken testing out his new camp chair, he loved it cause it was just his size. Cy enjoying the nice fresh air.

Ryken taking his swings at the Pinata. Puzzle time with his cousins, it was so nice to have all the younger kids there for him to play with.It is hard to get Ryken to take naps when we aren't at home. He ended up falling asleep on Grandma he was so tired. : )Again, see I told you we didn't hold Cy much. My mom with Cy and I think they both enjoyed their time together. : ) We had lots of fun in the cool mountain air and I think we are already looking forward to next year and getting to spend that time with family again.

OH and since it is so darn hot down here in Phoenix, Justin thought that Ryken needed more of a "Summer" hair cut. SO he told me he wanted to buzz his hair like his. I went along with it...NEVER AGAIN! It is so short. And with Ryken's light hair it makes it look even shorter. Good thing we already got our family pictures. : )

Family Pictures...

2009-07-22T17:27:00.000-07:00

We figured it was time to get some new family pictures taken since Cy has joined our family. : ) So got some done and they turned out pretty good considering everything, like our 2 year old that really didn't want to get his picture taken but the photographer got him to at least smile still. And our 6 week old that, well was the cute fussy baby that he always is. : ) And then there is a me that still feels like a frump, and Justin that had very little sleep that night and the night before but still smiled for the pictures. : )

See I told you he got him to smile, I just wished it was with his eyes open. : )

This was the best that we got, hey at least both of them have their eyes open and no one is screaming.

Ryken looking all handsome and adorable like he is... well sometimes. : )

Cy was awake the whole time and did pretty darn good. There was some pretty decent ones of him too. And he is still cute even without a real smile. ( and his hair is really starting to look red to me in certain lights.)

We are glad we got in there and got them done and now they are over with. Till next time. : )

Already one month...

2009-07-11T22:50:00.000-07:00

One month ago I was doing this...

Justin was doing this...

And we were now parents to another precious little boy...

a month later we have this adorable, lovable little Cy guy at home with us...

We still think that even though we get this alot...

But we also have some calmer moments when we get some cute funny faces like this...

And lets just say that his older brother is still smiling and really loves baby Cy...

We are all loving Cy and the smiles he brings to our faces. And we have pretty much forgotten what life was like without him. He is a hard one to forget. : ) And we can't wait to see what the next months and years will bring.

4th of July fun...

2009-07-07T22:27:00.000-07:00

We had some extended family fun for the 4th of July. Ryken, Cy and myself went to my uncle's house for a family bbq that they had put together. And I am so glad they did cause we had a great time.

Ryken got to go swimming, thanks to Deak, Emily and my dad that is. I didn't go and so they were nice enough to keep an eye on him for me. Thanks guys! ( hope you don't mind I posted your pictures. : ) )

And I got a break of my own since my mom was in town and she held and took care of Cy for most of the time I was there. So thanks for that too mom!

(I was never even got a chance to take a picture of Cy, so I had to stick in one that I had taken the day before. : ) )

Ryken again had a great time cause he got to hit something with a big stick. And what little boy doesn't love to hit stuff with sticks? : ) They had a pinata for the kids to break open.

But really one of the adults ended up breaking it open ( Wendi : ) ) But at least the kids all got a chance and had fun doing it.

He got lots of yummy candy out of the pinata too. He really liked the nerds. : ) And I loved getting to see Ryken play with some of his cousins.

Him and Cordd could have played with this marble toy for hours if we would have let them. We had such a great time that Ryken was out like a light on the way home.

I was so glad that I had brought his pajamas to put on him before we left. Thanks Uncle Randy and Aunt Patsy for inviting us to celebrate with all of you guys, it was great fun!

Guess who's 2?...

2009-07-01T22:26:00.000-07:00

RYKEN is! I really can't believe that I am the mom of a 2 year old. Our little guy turned 2 on the 24th. (i know i am bad and haven't had a chance to blog bout it, so sue me. : ) ) I was pretty sad that we weren't going to be able to really have a party for him this year like we did last year but with our new little one and other family stuff going on it wasn't able to happen. So instead we just got together with our great friends Kameron,Gina, Porter and Anastyn Lee. It was all kinda last minute but we went to Jeepers for a little fun for the boys and some pizza too. And it turned out to be a pretty fun time.

Here is the happy little 2 year old! The daddy's took the boys on the little roller coaster there. Boy does that thing go faster than I expected. (us moms took the boys first,and laughed the whole time cause we weren't expecting it to be so fast. )

Ryken's face when he was on the roller coaster with me. : ) He really seemed to like it, I was kinda surprised. Ryken and Porter using a little team work to make some baskets and smash some silly spiders. : )And of course the big boys had to have a little fun too. They got to play on the little bumper cars while we watched and laughed along with them.

After we hung out there for a few hours we made our way over to Justin's parents house and had a little cake there and Ryken got to open a few presents too.

He was being shy when we sang to him, but he sure was excited to blow out the candle once we got done singing. : )

The next day we decided to do a little something at home for him too. It was just our little family of 4 that day. And he opened up more presents from us and also had some more cake.

Once again so happy for himself after he blew out the candle on his very plain but very yummy birthday cake at home. : ) We didn't really get to take a family picture that day but we got the second best thing... Justin and I each got our picture taken with 2 of the cutest little boys we know!

Ryken turned 2 and Cy was 2 weeks old that day. : ) Kind of a fun day!

We also got to spend some time up in Woodruff with Grandma and Grandpa Baker and had another birthday celebration up there for him too. So all in all I guess he had a pretty great birthday even if we didn't plan out an actual birthday party for him.

The past week and a half...

2009-06-22T12:06:00.000-07:00

has been a little roller coaster. Well some days it was a little one and other days it was a big one, but mostly little. Thank goodness. : )

The boys have gotten to sleep a little, one sleeps a little more and a little better sometimes then the other. But they have both been sleeping pretty good. Cy's favorite spot to sleep is in the boppy pillow. Hopefully the bassinet will become a favorite soon too. : )

Ryken even started sleeping in his big boy bed. With the help of daddy's encouragement. He has done really good. Lets just hope he keeps it up when its mommy that has to put him down for nap and bed time.

There has also been alot of awake time too...

OH and lots of noise at our house lately too. I think Cy is already taking after his brother and maybe a little screamer too.

And on those days when it feels like the day has been a big roller coaster ride, Ryken has spent plenty of time in his time out corner...Not that it really does a whole lot of good these days. Cause he is for sure starting his terrible two's. Right on time I guess. But he has also been such a great helper. He loves his little baby Cy and always has to tell him Hi. Usually screaming it at him. And loves to give him hugs and kisses when its nap time and bed time. So lets hope that continues.

He even wanted to help out with his feeding too. : )But we are just glad that he is loving his new little brother so much. The nice part about this past week and a half is the fact that Justin has been at home to help out. Not sure what Ryken will do now that Justin is back at work. I am really not sure what any of us are going to do. Lets just hope I survive. : ) We also had some more extra help from one of the best baby helpers ever...
Grandma Baker! We were so glad she was able to come down and stay with us for a few days and nights. Not sure who is going to miss her more me or Ryken. : ) Thanks mom for coming down and helping out, even though I know you really came to see Ryken and Cy. But whatever it takes. : ) LOVE YOU! And I love my 3 boys too, Justin, Ryken and Cy.

He's Here...

2009-06-13T12:44:00.000-07:00

Cy Brent Buchberger

Born June 10th @9:44pm

7lbs 11ounces 20 inches long

Well I got my wish and our little guy got here a little earlier than his expected due date. All went well and I will try and get a post up of all the little details later. Just wanted to share a few pics first of him and his brother and our little family of 4. : )

Ryken checking to make sure Cy has all 10 toes. : )And our cute little family of 4! Love my boys!!

Tolmachoff Farms Family Farm Day...

2009-06-08T09:50:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we went to Tolmachoff Farm in Glendale to their family farm day. It was a pretty fun afternoon, up until the very end when Ryken had a major meltdown. But other that that part it was great. Ryken seemed to have a good time and got to see lots of different animals and Justin and I got some walking in that I was hoping would help with having this baby but hasn't seemed to do any good yet. : )

I think he also enjoyed just being outside when the weather wasn't to hot, and so did mom and dad.

There was a little slide there that he went on a few times...

but I guess it didn't thrill him as much as the other slides he tested out at the park we went to a few weeks ago. : ) I wanted to get a few pics of him and Justin with their heads in the veggie cut outs but Ryken couldn't quite figure it out and wouldn't look thru the hole at me.

Then when we tried to get him to do it he practically choked himself.

And the boys decided to take a lap around the little track they had there on the little peddle cars.
After all this fun, about 3 minutes later was the major meltdown. So we proceeded to the car and ended our fun day at the farm and headed home for a much needed nap for the little guy.

Old roomates/Great friends...

2009-06-07T13:56:00.000-07:00

So there are these 4 girls that I use to live with, and they have become some of my best friends. We always got along when we lived together and had some great times. And once we all went our separate ways we still stayed in contact with each other and would get together and do dinner every once in awhile. And we still do now, and we still have the best time catching up when we are together. And now one of them is moving to Chicago. : ( so we had to get together one last time to see each other and catch up on everything . And of course it was great to talk with all of them but even better to see them all.

One of our last dinner outings we had a great time and I never got around to adding the pics. So here they are...

Thanks B's for being some of the greatest friends and old roommates a girl could ask for. We will miss you while you are in Chicago Tiff and hope the next 3 years go by fast for all of us. : )

Great weekend...

2009-06-03T22:38:00.000-07:00

This past weekend was pretty darn great if you ask me. One of the best things about it is that I got to hang out with all of my brother's and their families as well as my parents. And we had a great time. Of course I forgot to take pictures for most of the weekend but needless to say we still had a great time.

Friday my parents were nice enough to watch all of the younger kids so the adults and older kids could go to the Diamondbacks game. It was a good time except for the fact that the D-backs lost (again) and that my ankles started to swell up alot that night. But we all had fun either way. On Saturday night we all got together again to go to our little brother Deak and his new wife Emily's wedding reception. We were able to get a new family picture since we were all here and all dressed up. : ) And of course I had to be the one that was big pregnant this time around. Oh well.

We got a little snap shot of our little family of 3, which pretty soon here will be a family of 4! : )The cute, happy couple cutting the cake. Mother and Son dancing together. Just a cute little pic of our handsome little man. : ) He carried that flower around alot that night. He really is a strange one sometimes. But still so darn adorable too. (Oh and Thanks to Justin for taking most of these pictures. I was being a lazy bum and sitting down for most of the time since my ankles were again swollen.)

I thought it would be funny to take a picture with me and all my brothers showing off our "Baker Bellies." I didn't know it was going to be such a production, all I wanted was a quick picture of all of us with our bellies since mine is pretty much really noticeable now days. : )

Here we all were with our bellies. : ) And then I guess the guys wanted to show some skin, so they proceeded to lift up their shirts and show some skin, and my dad wanted to get in on the action too. We all got a good laugh out of it, as well as a few of the guests at the reception. Sorry Deak and Emily if we made a fool of ourselves at your reception. : )

Then on Sunday it was another great family day out at Jared and Lori's place. And it was also my birthday! It was great getting to spend it out there with family. And my mom made me my favorite cake to enjoy with everyone too. Of course I didn't get any pictures taken.

On Monday my mom was nice enough to stay an extra day and come over to our place and watch Ryken for us. So we were able to go out on a little date for my birthday. And we also got to go with our good friends, the Lee's. We enjoyed a movie and dinner, and of course great company. And again I didn't take pictures. But I did get a cute on of Ryken and my mom before she left.

Thanks again mom for sticking around the extra time and watching our little guy so we could get out at least one last time before our next little guy gets here. : ) Which by the way I guess is going to be a little longer. We went to the Dr. again on Tuesday and we haven't progressed much. So maybe he doesn't want to get here as early as his brother did. Only time will tell. Until then we are still pregnant, and still waiting to meet our 2nd little man.

37 weeks and a few days. : )

2009-05-30T11:44:00.000-07:00

We went to our Dr. appointment on Thursday and we found out that we are making progress already. The Dr. said I am dilated to a 2, just about a 3. So maybe we will have a baby here a little earlier than expected. I know I can stay at this stage for awhile but Ryken came at 38 weeks so we are very curious of when this little guy is going to make his appearance. I was hoping that my Dr would be here to do the delivery but of course he is going on vacation the 1st week of June which is when I will be 38 weeks. So we will see if he gets to deliver this little guy since he also was gone when we had Ryken. Man he needs to stop taking vacation when I am having my babies! : ) I am kinda hoping the baby will just stick it out a little longer inside so that I can still get a little more ready, and try and prepare myself a little more in realizing that I am going to be a mom to another little guy. 2 kids! It still makes me freak out a little and I know I really don't have any more time to freak out.

Having a little fun...

2009-05-26T22:34:00.001-07:00

I wanted to get out on Monday and try and have a little bit of fun with Ryken and Justin before our new little guy gets here. I was hoping to find something that Ryken would enjoy doing. And I think we succeeded in finding the place. He had a great time and so did we. : ) And it was a pretty cheap little trip since I had found a coupon online to use for the holiday. Made it even better. : ) We went to Desert Breeze Railroad park in Chandler. Ryken has enjoyed riding the train at the other parks we had been to so we figured he would like this one too. And we figured right.

Here was a little snap shot of the boys waiting for the train to start. : ) We rode it about 4 times I think and it was a hit every time. Even though it really doesn't look like he enjoyed it by these pictures I promise he did. Since we had never been to this park before I didn't really know what to expect. They had a great play area with lots of different slides and things to play on. And Ryken had lots of fun there too.

He was all smiles on every slide, and every time he went down them. It was so great to get to see him so happy while he just played his little heart out. And just like the other parks we had been to there was also a little carousel for him, and us to ride on. Not sure it was the best idea for me since it was kinda faster than the others and I seemed to get a little more dizzy on it since I am alot bigger now days. : )See I told you I was alot bigger. : ) He loved the giraffe and was patting it and then was also excited to ride on the rooster with daddy's help. We had a great time at this park and we will probably try to get back there again since we all enjoyed it. They even have a little splash pad area that the kids can get wet in since its getting hotter out. But we didn't know that and hadn't brought a swimsuit for him. But maybe next time. Just had to add this cute little picture of him in his little sunglasses. We were pretty surprised that he kept them on so well. I just think he looks so adorable in them especially with is little ear flipped down a little bit. Makes me smile. : ) And we are still counting down the days till our new addition will be here. Hopefully sooner than later.

Will I make it?

2009-05-20T22:51:00.000-07:00

I am not sure if I will make it these next 4 weeks. I can't believe we are already down to 4 weeks till our due date, and down to the last 4 weeks until we will meet our little guy. There is a part of me that wishes that I had like 2 more months left. Cause I really am not sure I will survive handling 2 little boys. Or maybe I am just afraid I won't be able to handle at least one of them, the one named Ryken. : ) He has been such a stinker lately. Part of me is thinking maybe he is starting to understand that he isn't going to be the only little guy around here pretty soon. Or maybe its just the whole Terrible Two's thing. Whatever it is, we are not enjoying it at all! The other part of me is wanting to be done with this pregnancy cause now that its getting to the end I am just so uncomfortable. I can't sleep, all I want to do is still eat, my feet are starting to swell up by the end of the day, my back has this horrible pain shooting down it whenever I seem to get up to walk. Well the list just seems to go on and on. So it sure is a toss up now days on if I really want our little guy to get here early or maybe just stay in his comfy spot for awhile longer. : ) Only time will tell what he has in mind.

Until then I guess I need to constantly have my camera out. Cause the only thing that seems to make Ryken happy lately is him getting his picture taken by us. : ) He gets all excited and says "CHEESE" when you get the camera out. Then of course he has to look at the picture you took and then points to himself and says "Ry" (that's how he says his name, can't get down the ken part. : ) ) Here are a few snap shots we got the last few days...

Ryken, me and my fat face getting ready to leave the house and had to take a picture in our shades. : ) We can't believe that he like to wear these or even that he will leave them on but he does. Here he is being his adorable little self when he isn't throwing his tantrums or whining about basically nothing. We made some yummy smoothies and he got one of his own. And boy did he enjoy it. Can't you tell he enjoyed it? LOL! He looks pretty scary in this pic and pretty trashy with his smoothie all over his face, but still looks really cute too. How can that be?I had to add this picture of his little feet. He wears flip flops almost everyday of the week, and has the tan lines to prove it. : )

34 weeks...

2009-05-09T10:14:00.000-07:00

We had our 34 week check up at the Dr's office. And we got to see the little guy with an ultrasound of course. : ) It was great to see him and know that everything is going great! He is measuring a little bigger , the tech said about 5 days ahead of schedule. So maybe he will be early like his big brother was. (some days I am hoping he is early, others I wish I had a while longer) She said he is weighing about 5 pounds 4 ounces. Everything is looking good, and even better is that the fibroid I have isn't growing much. THANK GOODNESS! So the Dr said there isn't anything he is worried about when it comes to the fibroid. YAY!

Here is one of the pics that the tech took. I had to take a picture of it with my camera so its not the best. Plus it wasn't the best in the first place. : ) If you know what you are looking at you probably can make it all out. If not then sorry it probably just looks like a big blob. He is covering up his face a little with one of his hands. I guess looking at him on ultrasound and looking at Ryken the tech thinks that they are going to look similar. Great news for me cause I think Ryken is one of the cutest!! Either way I am sure I will be in LOVE with our new little guy too!

And of course here is a big belly pic of me. I feel HUGE! I seriously feel like I am bigger now than I was when I had Ryken. But I think and hope I can make it. : ) Its not helping that its getting so hot so fast this summer. Wishing I had a pool, that I could lounge in and not have to scare others with my prego belly. : )

Married...

2009-05-05T15:55:00.001-07:00

My little brother Deak got married on Saturday! He married the sweetest and cutest girl. Welcome to our crazy family Emily. We love you guys both, and are so happy for you.

Aren't they such a cute couple?Deak isn't so cute in this picture but oh well I still had to post it, cause it was the only one I got with Ryken and them. : )My wonderful parents with the newly wed couple. :) And of course I had to post a few cute pics of Ryken too from that night. :)

He LOVED the swing set and slide that was in Emily's parents backyard. He was so excited to swing on the big kid swing and loved the slide too if you couldn't tell by his huge smile. Deak and Emily have a reception later this month so I am sure there will be more fun pictures to post of that too. As long as we make it to the reception and not have our little guy come before then. : )

He makes me smile...

2009-04-30T21:46:00.000-07:00

Ryken makes me smile... And I love it so much! He is so funny lately. He likes to get his blanket out and sits on the couch covering up his head. And when he is covered up he likes to say "where'd go?" (where did I go?)

Then when you ask where he went he gets all happy and whips the blanket off his head and gives you this big cheesy grin....

Oh man he can make me the happiest mom sometimes. : ) And lately I have been wondering if his little brother that is going to be here sooner than we know it is going to be as handsome as he is.... : )

I<3 you Mr. Ryken!!!

Weekend in Woodruff...

2009-04-22T11:08:00.000-07:00

We kinda decided last minute to make a trip up to visit my parents in Woodruff. Once Justin got off work on Saturday we packed up and were on our way. I didn't put Ryken down for a nap that day cause I was hoping that he would just sleep on the way up and then Justin could sleep too and me.... well I would drive. : ) But of course things never go as planned. Ryken had been pretty fussy that day and so I wasn't sure we should even go up. But Justin said we should cause he knew I wanted to go. So we went anyways and Ryken slept for about a total of maybe 45 mins! Not good. So we decided to put a movie on for him, and once he is watching that he never wants to close his eyes.

Here he is so into the movie. And he doesn't look so well either. Well as the trip went on I looked back at him and his eyes were all red and watering cause he was so tired and didn't want to sleep. And his cheeks were even more red then in the picture. He was burning up! So we gave him some Tylenol hoping it would help. Once we got to Woodruff he was still the same and in a grumpy mood. Needless to say he nor we got much sleep that night. Even Grandma woke up tryin to help out. We got him in a good mood around 4 that morning and then at 4:30 he decided he wanted to go to sleep. He was still running a fever for the next few days but that didn't stop him from wanting to be outside doing something. So we found some bubbles and he wanted to try and blow some himself.It was so funny watching him try to blow the bubbles, he even succeeded a few times. And even though he didn't want to eat any real food he did however take grandma up on her offer for some candy.His mouth was full of whopper eggs. And he enjoyed them so much we had to hide the bag. And as you can tell his face was a little blue after a few too. : ) He also found about 3 different flashlights of Grandpa's to play with. He loved them! He kept wanting someone to turn one on for him and would say "light" as he walked around shining it on anything and everything. We had a pretty good time while were there aside from the fact that Ryken wasn't feeling well at all. He still had a few moments that he was fun to be around. And we all got to relax a little and enjoy the cooler weather. Since Ryken hadn't gotten much sleep while we were there, he had several little cat naps on Justin and I. And he usually never will fall asleep on you unless he is dead tired. Which is what he was as you can tell in the picture. That was the only nice thing about him not feeling good was that he cuddled a little bit, and he never does that.

So thanks Mom and Dad for taking care of us and feeding us this past weekend. We had lots of fun. And sorry that Ryken wasn't feeling the best while we were there but the help you gave was the best. : ) LOVE YOU GUYS!!!

Easter...

2009-04-14T22:41:00.000-07:00

We had a great Easter this year. We started our celebration a little early. We went to the Easter pageant with my family on Saturday night. It had been raining off and on that day. But thankfully it stopped raining and was just chilly that night while the pageant was going on. Then on Sunday we went to Church and were able to reflect on all that Christ has done for us, and the reason we celebrate Easter. We are so thankful for him and all that he has done for us. After Church we were able to head out to Queen Creek to have a great Easter lunch at my brother and sister in laws house. It was great getting to spend more time with family. And while we were there they set up a little Easter egg hunt for all the little kiddos. Ryken had so much fun looking for the eggs. His cousin Tucker helped him along the way to find some of the eggs. He was so happy to find some and he enjoyed the jellybeans inside the most I think. : )

Ryken with all of the stuff he got from the Easter Bunny. I think that the Easter bunny may have gone a little over board for him this year. oops! : )He was so excited about the egg in his basket, but really it was a jellybean not an egg. But we didn't tell him. : ) We just let him think it was an egg. HA HA! And of course he had to get cereal on his new Easter outfit, before church. Oh well. It got worse at church. He colored all over his sweater vest during Sacrament meeting. AAAGGH! Boys will be boys!Here he was after finding an egg under the lamp topper outside in the backyard. He had great fun. Thanks for all the fun at your house Jared and Lori! We hope everyone had a great Easter this year. And was able to take some time to think about Christ and all he has done for us. : )

Spelling his name...

2009-04-09T14:48:00.000-07:00

We have had the letters of Ryken's name up on his wall since we decorated his room. Well in the past few months he would always point to them when he woke up from his naps or from waking up in the morning. So we started telling him the letters from his name when he pointed to them. Well I guess it has stuck with him. And now he tries to spell it himself. I got this video of him when he woke up from his nap the other afternoon. If you listen close you can hear him. And sorry about my annoying voice. : ) He doesn't pronounce the letters all the best but he does pretty darn good if you ask us. : )

Zoo trip...

2009-04-06T09:26:00.000-07:00

On Friday Ryken and I got to make a little trip to the Phoenix Zoo with some of our friends, Kyla and Aeryn and Kelli and Mia. We had such a fun time, the weather was pretty nice and the company was great. : ) I hadn't been to the Phoenix zoo for like 6 years so it was fun to get to go and take my little guy to check out all the cool animals there. One thing that I didn't remember about the zoo was how many hills there were. And now having a stroller to push up those hills I think I may never forget them. : ) It was times like that when I was really wishing Justin was with us. But we made it thru the hills with out to many problems. : ) We got to see LOTS of different monkeys, An Elephant, Some lions, and a Tiger. And of course there was a few others along the way too. I really think that Ryken's favorite part was getting to the petting zoo. He liked checking out the goats there. I think he had one favorite one out of all of them, cause the goat just layed there so he could brush him and check him out.

But then another came along and he decided to give him a little hair brushing too.I think that Ryken and Mia enjoyed the goats a little more than Aeryn, but then again I think they all liked it cause they got to get out of the strollers and run around a little. : )

After we enjoyed some sitting time at the petting zoo we headed over to the "Little People" area to let them run around a little more. I was trying to get a picture of all of them together but failed to do it while playing here. But i was able to get a quick picture of Ryken and Mia riding the cow together. : )I have to say Ryken and I really enjoyed ourselves that day, getting to hang out with some friends and getting out of the house while it wasn't to hot. On the way out I was able to get picture of all 3 of the kiddos before we left. (Ryken was for sure out numbered by the girls this day. )And since I had failed to get a picture of Ryken and Aeryn in the little people area I got a little snap shot of the two of them on our drive home instead. Thanks again for the fun outing ladies. Hope we get to do it again sometime. And thanks Kyla for letting me use your free pass to get in. That made the trip even better that it was free for me. : )

Relaxing St. Patty's Day...

2009-03-18T15:02:00.000-07:00

Since the weather has been pretty nice (not to hot) the past few days I told Justin that I would like to go on a picnic. So that is what we decided to do for a little relaxing day and it just happened to be on St. Patrick's day. : ) We decided to drive a little bit out of the way and we ended up at Freestone Park in Gilbert. We knew there was some little rides there for Ryken and also a park. So on the way there Ryken got a little bit of a nap in but not much. So we wasn't the happiest when we got there but it changed when we got to sit down and eat something.

We had our little blanket under a tree to eat in the shade. And of course it was next to the little pond and there were ducks all over. And there happened to be 3 of them that were pretty close by us. So of course Ryken was all excited about the "quack,quack". That's his way of saying duck. : )

He enjoyed getting to count them. And he counts to 3 the best so it worked out great that there were the 3 by us to count. : ) Once he saw the ducks and the water he lost all interest in eating of course. So we took turns walking around with him to make sure he didn't decide to take a swim with the ducks which is what he wanted to do. He kept trying to step into the water when he got closer. He was pretty daring and it was pretty scary. So we had to try to get him away from the water. I guess we found the 2nd best thing. Which was some big rocks that he could play on and around.

After all of that we decided to go and check out the little train ride and the carousel. We took a train ride first and Ryken enjoyed it all except for when the "conductor" decided to get everyone on the train to yell "All Aboard!" He wasn't very amused by that.

But once we got going on the train he was all smiles and enjoyed it. And it was nice to get to sit down and feel a little breeze as we rode around on the train and saw the little park.

After the first train ride we rode on the carousel a few times till we could take the train around again. And again Ryken enjoyed getting to ride the horse on the carousel. As did Justin and I. : )Since we had paid for the unlimited rides bracelets we got to ride the train a few times as well as the carousel. We had a good time and it was nice to get out in the nice weather and enjoy some time together before it gets to hot to do anything but swim outside. : )

Hope you all had a great St. Patty's Day and wore your green like Ryken and I. Justin was a party pooper and didn't wear any green. I think I was nice and didn't even pinch him. : )

6 months along...

2009-03-07T09:43:00.000-08:00

We have now reached the 6 month mark. So our little guy is going to be here before we know it. And we have been trying and trying to agree on a name for this little guy. We haven't settled on a for sure name yet and it may just drive me crazy. : ) We already had Ryken's name picked out by this time. But this little guys has stumped us. All the names that I like Justin doesn't like. And the few that Justin liked I didn't really like. So I sure hope we can come up with something before the little guy gets here.

And I am really starting to POP! I have been thru all this before but it still all seems so new when it happens again. Feeling him move around so much is a great feeling. Now if I could just get comfy enough to get some sleep at nights. And I sure hope I do so I can get some sleep in before he gets here.And I sure hope our other little guy can adjust to all the new stuff that is coming his way and our way in the next few months too. All I know is when I was pregnant with Ryken I didn't have to do some of the things I have to do now. Like I don't know um.... take care of a toddler! : ) Giving him his baths is sure getting harder and even getting up from changing diapers. Man I am way out of shape. : ) But it will all be worth it, and I hope they can be the best of friends as time goes by.

A few fun outings this past week...

2009-02-23T09:10:00.000-08:00

This past week we were able to get out of the house and enjoy the nice weather. Justin's sister is in town and also a family friend of his mom's with her daughter Tally and her daughter Audrey too. :) So we were trying to get together to do some things that all of us would enjoy as well as the kids. The plan was to get together on Monday by meeting up at the Wildlife World Zoo. So that is what we did on Monday afternoon. It was lots of fun and the kids did pretty good considering they didn't have naps in yet. Of course Ryken was the one that had the meltdown at the end of our day there. But we all got thru it. :) None of us had ever been to that zoo and so we were looking forward to it. Plus they have an aquarium there now too. So we had lots of fun getting to check out all the fun animals there. It was kinda crowded thru the aquarium and especially if you were trying to push a stroller. But we were still able to see a few of the cool things. There was lots of fun animals to see and of course I took lots of pictures. To many really to post all of them.

Here Ryken was checking out the white alligator they have there. It was kinda creepy with its red eyes. And it just was sitting there like that for awhile. But Ryken seemed to enjoy checking it out.

Here are all the little ones lined up in a row trying to see over the stumps to check out the Flamingos..

And here are the Flamingos. : )

The Giraffes were really cool. There was 4 of them. 2 bigger ones and 2 baby ones. There was also this tower you could go up in and feed them. It was really cool to see them up close.

And they had this Lion there. He was also pretty cool to see and was pretty loud to at one point he let out a really loud growl that scared me. : )

These are the adorable little ones that we enjoyed the day with. : ) Tristan is Justin's sister Jessica's little guy. Then of course there is Ryken. : ) And the cute little girl is Audrey and that is Tally's little girl. They all stuck it out and we all enjoyed the day.

On Tuesday we went over that night and enjoyed some relaxin time with everyone at Justin's parents house. The kids were able to play together some more outside and we all enjoyed some yummy pizza. It is really fun that all the kids were able to get together and play, cause they are all pretty close in age. All 3 of them are only months apart in age. And now all of us mom's are pregnant again at the same time. And again these ones will only be a few months apart in age.

Here we were with our pregnant bellies. : )

The kiddos snacking on their pizza at their own little table.

And here are the adorable little cousins. They had so much fun playing together while Tristan was visiting.

On Wednesday we made a the little trip out to Scottsdale and went to McCormick Ranch. It is a really cool park. We ate lunch there and enjoyed time on the playground with the kids and even got to ride the carousel and the best was the little train ride they have. The kids all loved it as well as us adults. : )

Ryken made one of his several trips down the slide. Even with a little twisted leg he still made it down and said "Weeeee" the whole slide down. : ) I even got in on a little bit of play at the playground. While Ryken and Tristan were swinging in jumped on the other swing and joined them. It sure has been awhile since I have done any swinging but it was great fun.

All 3 of the kids were excited to ride on the train. Here we were all waiting in line and the kids were checking out the train. Here are all the mom's with their little ones. Waiting for the train ride to begin. Ryken was so funny thru almost half of the trip around the park on the train he kept saying " Toot Toot". He loved it!The cute little train that we rode thru the park.

If you look really close on the left you can see Justin in the back with his hand up and Ryken on the horse. :) The carousel was a big hit too.

Here was Ryken and my ride on the carousel. (Justin took a better picture of us then I did of him. :) )

Sorry for the picture overload but we had so much fun last week that I finally had to sit down and blog about it. : ) I wish we lived closer to McCormick Ranch cause it was lots of fun and not to expensive. Maybe we will make another trip out there again soon.